>> a grid-tied solar system does not need a "dump battery" so that is a >> wasted investment. Just charge from the net-metered solar system as is.
> Barring an unlikely major change in America's political system that > vastly reduces the influence of money on laws, > grid tie is going to be effectively gone in a few years. > The utilities despise it, and will price it out of existence. If ignorance prevails, yes. The millions that the fossil fuel industry (Koch bros) put into disinformation, lies and political hogwash against solar and grid-tie really does fool a lot of people. But there is no question that net-metering grid-tie *IS* beneficial to the utilities (and everyone else). See this plot: http://aprs.org/Energy/solar/PJM-data-2.png It shows the demand here in the mid atlantic and the hourly cost of electricity. I then overlayed WHEN my solar array is producing and WHEN I am drawing back out for night time charging. And any fool can see that the utility is getting my solar at a time when they are PAYING more than 12 cents per kWh average and that I am taking it back out when their average cost is only 5 cents. So they are making a 240% profit on MY solar system. And that more than pays for the 3 cents per kWh of distribution charges. And the PROOF that solar is worth TEN TIMES or more to them is simply in their "peak rewards" program that PAYS any customer to cut demand on these peak summer days more than $1.50 per kWh to NOT use power. I know a guy that disconnects his house from the grid on those days and has made more than $100 in a single day by NOT using electricity when it is costing the utility 10 to 20 times the usual rate. So don't believe the fossil fuel rhetoric. Free electricity from the sun benefits EVERYONE. The fossil fuel industry hates it because it takes away some of their price gouging. Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
