ggunn
PE (Electrical), NABCEP certified
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Occupation
- Consulting Electrical Engineer - Photovoltaic Systems
I"ll speak to your position: It is their grid inside your house, especially if you are pumping energy into it. The grid isn't just the wires, it's the whole electrical distribution system right down to whatever you plug into a wall outlet. If you are connected to it, you are part of it.Just want to be sure you are understanding my position. You seem to keep not commenting specifically on it and keep talking about terms like "batteries" and " net metering". Having one meter doesn't have to be net metering. Basically one meter just allows you to directly consume what you make. Exports to the grid could still be a different rate than imports. I don't believe it's "their grid" inside my house
See my previous post about the AHJ near here that only allows PV to be connected outside the customer's meter (FIT topology). There's no question there as to whose grid the PV is connecting to, and I'll wager that that's why they do it that way. But from an increasing number of POCOs' POV it makes no difference where you are injecting energy into the grid, inside your meter or miles away. It also makes no difference that you disagree with them; you play by their rules or you don't play. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's the way it is.
The days of net metering are numbered. That does not mean that solar is going away, not by a long shot. The solar market here in Austin under AE's Value Of Solar is thriving.
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