>> people that can get by on 0-net electricity use pay nothing for the real, significant benefit of being connected to the grid. Unless one is a rural resident

>> people that can get by on 0-net electricity use pay nothing for the real, significant benefit of being connected to the grid. Unless one is a rural resident you cant get to net zero and legally disconnect from the grid. You will pay PGE for something even if you dont draw power from them in most of their service area. > With net metering it's essentially forcing utilities to buy their power at retail rates The retail rate for electricity is getting to ZERO at points during the day. Transmission is the biggest cost/factor here and PGE has decades of not doing any upkeep on that aspect of the system. Color me less than sympathetic to the situation. Sorry but PG&E can go fuck itself. It is backwards at best and greedy at worst.