What is even worser than taxing the rain and by extension the heavens and G_d Himself? Taxing sunshine. Hahaha, we are just kidding, it is obviously not a problem to tax the sun because it is a proposal put forth by American heroes ALEC, and not by some dumb Dummycrat.
"Eventually they'll have to charge a flat monthly fee for "infrastructure" plus a metered charge for buying electricity they produce (instead of just using your own)."
ConEd already does that in NYC.
The ALEC scheme, of course, only penalizes the commie liebruls who install solar.
There's no magic formula . . . should you pay more toward "infrastructure" if you use more electricity than the guy across the street? Or should the utility take its fixed costs, divide by the number of customers, and charge them all that much as a flat "connection fee", whether they're running a trailer home or an aluminum smelter?
a little off topic, but why does this site crash my shockwave flash all of the time? the page freezes, and i get a bubble telling me my plug in stopped working. this doesn't happen on other sites i visit.
the hard part is the storage- until battery technology matures significantly going completely off the grid is a pipe dream for most people. A friend of mine does analysis on the idea full distributed for Salt River Project (the utility company that supplies the phoenix metro area) and he's pretty pessimistic that the hurdles can be overcome. But robust residential solar is definitely here already and is about to explode all over the state, which is why the utility companies tried this preemptive shot- they can reading the writing on the wall
I do understand the need for a small fee- which is technically an access fee to the grid, not a charge for installing panels. If your system breaks even on buy/sell you really are freeloading. someone needs to maintain the lines and run the utility company at night when everyone is buying back their power. the question is, how much? $5 is peanuts- $100 a month is grossly excessive
Real Christianists use candles on their trees. Nothings says "Christmas" like accidentally burning your house down in Jeebus' name!
Sun News (Fox News up here in Soviet Canuckistan) just lost a court battle where they were trying to make us all pay for their garbage. They are hemorrhaging money so like good capitalists, they begged the government for help.
you should start small with a planet or a even a small moon and work your way up
"Eventually they'll have to charge a flat monthly fee for "infrastructure" plus a metered charge for buying electricity they produce (instead of just using your own)."
ConEd already does that in NYC.
The ALEC scheme, of course, only penalizes the commie liebruls who install solar.
And I will be checking it often.
Nothing you couldn't fix with a tax on dirt.
There's no magic formula . . . should you pay more toward "infrastructure" if you use more electricity than the guy across the street? Or should the utility take its fixed costs, divide by the number of customers, and charge them all that much as a flat "connection fee", whether they're running a trailer home or an aluminum smelter?
a little off topic, but why does this site crash my shockwave flash all of the time? the page freezes, and i get a bubble telling me my plug in stopped working. this doesn't happen on other sites i visit.
the hard part is the storage- until battery technology matures significantly going completely off the grid is a pipe dream for most people. A friend of mine does analysis on the idea full distributed for Salt River Project (the utility company that supplies the phoenix metro area) and he's pretty pessimistic that the hurdles can be overcome. But robust residential solar is definitely here already and is about to explode all over the state, which is why the utility companies tried this preemptive shot- they can reading the writing on the wall
I do understand the need for a small fee- which is technically an access fee to the grid, not a charge for installing panels. If your system breaks even on buy/sell you really are freeloading. someone needs to maintain the lines and run the utility company at night when everyone is buying back their power. the question is, how much? $5 is peanuts- $100 a month is grossly excessive
And, presumably, they are paying their share of the infrastructure cost via the electricity they buy at night, when it's overcast, etc.
That was the first time I've ever looked at Yelp... Probably the last as well...
Yes, they do... Also, your blood and organs.
INCEST LIBEL!
DAMN YOU OBAMACARE!
Real Christianists use candles on their trees. Nothings says "Christmas" like accidentally burning your house down in Jeebus' name!
Sun News (Fox News up here in Soviet Canuckistan) just lost a court battle where they were trying to make us all pay for their garbage. They are hemorrhaging money so like good capitalists, they begged the government for help.
The tears of human infants sustain ALEC.