EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
The grid is "free storage" for now in some areas, but I predict that net metering will be dead in 10 years. Powerful and well connnected (politically, not electrically) people don't like it, and they have state legislatures in their pockets.
This strikes me as the situation as well. It's a gamble. Maybe you can win in certain places at certain times. But the "house" (utility companies) are watching carefully, and are going to set the rules so they win in the long run.
The good news is that you don't need expensive, new, first-rate batteries for your own off-grid storage. When batteries decline to where they only deliver (say) half of their rated capacity, they are generally scrapped and replaced. You can get these used batteries for little more than the scrap price.
Who cares if they are twice the size and weight for a given amount of energy storage? You're not hauling them around in your EV; they're sitting in your garage or basement.
And when they are no longer useful even for PV storage, you can scrap them and get almost as much as you paid for them. Maybe even more. :-)
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