On Dec 23, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, there is way less motivation for the utility to "penalize" the > homeowner in a case like this. The big picture for the utilities is that people with solar buy substantially less electricity, which in turn means the utilities get nowhere near as much money from those people. What they care about isn't how you go about no longer buying electricity from them; what they care about is that you're not actually buying electricity from them any more. The utilities right now think that they can solve that problem by charging solar customers what they solar customers would be paying if they didn't have any solar panels. That only makes sense if they have a monopoly and if their customers don't have any alternative choice. The problem in their thinking is that we _do_ have a choice, and this dick move on their part makes the competition a slightly better financial value, _and_ the competition has all sorts of non-financial benefits. b& _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
