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But Australia has private grids too, so everything you say about utilities would also be true there. No?
by dalyons 3y ago
But Australia has private grids too, so everything you say about utilities would also be true there. No?
- rgmerk 3y agoUtilities don’t particularly like rooftop solar here either, but a combination of factors has meant that their efforts to stop rooftop solar have been less successful. Now, the constituency of people with solar panels on their roofs is so large that it will be very politically difficult for the industry to turn back the clock.
- epistasis 3y agoThe rules are far more uniform. In addition to more consistency from the utilities, there's also far more consistency with building codes and permitting. In the US, every little municipality does their own damn thing, on their own timeline, with whatever quirks exists within a small bureaucracy ruled by politicians elected by people that rarer even know their names. Having more uniform rules across states and regions would reduce a lot of the overhead of installing residential solar.