Robert Burnings said "With GT, there is no such thing as wasted, or excess power, its all converted to $$$ on your electric bill."
That all depends on your local electric company. When we produce more electricity than we use the excess does go to the utility. We are not paid for that electricity like people are in some other locations (States?). We just get a VERY SLIGHT reduction in the cost of any electricity that we buy from the utility at night. To make matters worse our local electric utility is no longer installing net meters when any customer adds solar panels to their home after January 1, 2020. I assume that anyone in my area that adds solar panels will have the same situation that we had before we got net metering. Electricity that we got from the utility we paid for. Any of our "excess electricity" that we generated went to the utility, and we also paid for that. There is/was any $$$$ in our case. Dr. Bob Keeland Louisiana On Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:11 PM Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > I disagree. When you make a $10,000 investment in a solar array, any sun > that falls on it and does not give you retail value in return for the > electricity is truly a wasted economic value. With GT, there is no such > thing as wasted, or excess power, its all converted to $$$ on your > electric bill. And that is what lead the Solar explosion about a decade > ago. No batteries, no maintenance, but economic power for life... at > Half the cost of the utility... > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: EV <ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org> On Behalf Of Lee Hart via EV > Subject: Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's > > Willie via EV wrote: > > BTW, I believe someone mentioned that the not produced power when an > > inverter "cuts back" must be dissipated somewhere as heat. I don't > > believe that is the case; I believe the inverter can just not produce > > the available power with no heat generation. > > I agree. It would be a stupid design that burned it up as heat. Any sane > design would just turn off or throttle back the inverter. The energy isn't > "wasted" any more than the sunlight that falls on a sidewalk or street is > "wasted". > > It does lead to an interesting question: If you have excess electric > power, what can you do with it to accomplish some useful purpose? > Provide free public EV charging? Light up a greenhouse to grow more food? > Run a freezer to store more food? > > Lee Hart > > -- > When something bad happens, you have three choices: You can let it define > you; let it destroy you; or you can let it strengthen you. > -- Theodor Seuss Geisel > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200527/db7f310a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
