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I don't think that would be fair anyway. There is more value in electricity than net kwH used in a year. Ignoring other value that power companies provide (such
by infogulch 12y ago
I don't think that would be fair anyway. There is more value in electricity than net kwH used in a year. Ignoring other value that power companies provide (such as supplying for large demand fluctuations over days and seasons) and asserting that you should get them for free seems disingenuous at best.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoInteresting use of the term fair. If I had 'super capacitors' or pretty much any 98% or better charge storage device I could take my house off the grid and give the power company zero dollars for power. In my ideal world I would set up solar to nominally charge the base load charge supply for my house, and power the house from the base load charge supply. In the event my base load charge supply dropped below a set limit, I'd use natural gas to run a fuel cell for some number of hours to get the base load charge supply back into the right zone. I continue to use gas for heat applications (stove top, dryer, house heater, water heating) but would be no longer part of the electricity grid. Right now, to do this costs more than the 'surcharge' I'm paying PG&E to be a utility with electricity on demand. But once the economics switch I'm going to kick their electricity service to the curb. And I consider that both right and fair.