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Huge kick in the nuts for everyone that installed solar. Especially those of us in San Diego county.
by Ancalagon 3y ago
Huge kick in the nuts for everyone that installed solar. Especially those of us in San Diego county.
- midasuni 3y agoHow much do you need the grid vs storage in winter? Can you increase your generation?
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- itsoktocry 3y ago>Huge kick in the nuts for everyone that installed solar. Especially those of us in San Diego county How so? Did you not invest in solar in order to decrease your carbon footprint? If you did it to save money, the evidence is pretty clear that without subsidies a lot of green industries are unsustainable. Government policy can change on a whim.
- dotnet00 3y agoThis sort of smug "Did you not invest in solar in order to decrease your carbon footprint?" with the implied "Why did you expect it to save you money?" argument is not going to be productive if your goal is reducing emissions. Selling solar as a means to lower your costs in an environmentally friendly way, then raising prices in a way that cancels out those savings and smugly telling angry people that they were supposed to do it for the environment without concern for cost to themselves is only going to make them less receptive to your cause.
- lorenzhs 3y agoYour information is quite a few years out of date. The solar learning curve has continued in the meantime, reducing the cost every year. Especially in sunny places like California, unsubsidised solar pays for itself surprisingly quickly (I don’t have the numbers for CA, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the number was 10 years).
- coding123 3y agoits just a matter of replacing those per-panel inverters with a lot of string inverters and reaching out to diysolar forums on how to build your own prismatic batteries on the cheap. prolly 3-4 $2k inverters and maybe 10k of batteries
- Ancalagon 3y agoThat’s a 16-20k investment to make what was previously paying for itself back into a worthy investment. That’s not trivial.
- jmoak3 3y agoThat’s why they did it. If too many people cut down usage thru solar then everyone else has to pay more per kWh of usage. The usage is a big cost for any utility provider, but another huge part is keeping everything maintained and connected across the entire grid. That costs man hours, materials, you name it. If you swap to solar and pay 0$ per month, yet you still incur costs to your utility to keep lines running to your home and your county, then a flat monthly fee to charge for that unused connection to cover your capacity to use it when needed makes sense. Something had to give, idk if the path they’ve chosen is the right path however