By: Rosemary Graham-Gardner

Rosemary Graham-Gardner — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 03:52:38 +0000

Whatever we do, we get screwed!

By: Ed Costello

Ed Costello — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:05:12 +0000

Just another in the continuing attempts by “public” utilities to stamp out renewable energy. See Solarman2’s coment above for details.

By: Solarman2

Solarman2 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:15:15 +0000

The take away here is a considered 200,000 solar PV customers out of 1.4 million total customers now have to pay a “connection fee” on top of an insulting $0.03/kWh ‘credit’ for excess energy pushed back onto the grid. This stink-a-roocho “grid access charge” is foisted on 4-5% of the customers with solar PV on their roofs, while the neighbors with no solar PV still pay on average $0.17/kWh from a [distributed generation system] that allows the utility to grab some more money in “avoided costs” NOT monitized to pass along to the solar PV adopters reflected in the amount of money per credit above the (wholesale rate). The electric Utility gets their “pound of flesh” in all of the bundled costs, generation fees, transmission, fees, interstate and intrastate distribution fees, the most egregious is the LFCR which seems to be seasonally adjusted without a rate case being filed. I’d call this ‘usury,’ using something called “grid access charge” which is no more than a “sun tax”.

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By: Rosemary Graham-Gardner

By: Ed Costello

By: Solarman2