On 28 May 2020 at 15:52, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > But to be fair, there is a cost to the utility > company since they get less revenue but still must maintain the same > level of infrastructure. Surely there's a better and fair way to do > this.
This is where subsidies come in. If a utility agrees to buy back homemade energy at full retail from homeowners with documented RE sources, then either the state or federal government should pay them for doing it. That will encourage further RE adoption, reducing pollution and improving our energy independence. No doubt the utilities will overstate their expenses and make a profit on it. That's what they do. So it goes. Do it anyway. This is a public good. It's the sort of thing that we pay taxes for. Use them. Not that I think this will actually ever happen in the US, given our politics and priorities. Our governments are only allowed to subsidize traditional dirty energy producers. And are they ever generous about that kind of welfare! But we can dream. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ 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)
