No one needs to pay the greedy utility for it. When my solar arrays are producing during the day, that is also the PEAK grid load where the utilites are buying their power from other sources at the highest rate. But they pay me (in kWh) at the going average rate. Then at night when I ask for it back, they are generating it at their lowest cost, probably 1/2 to 1/3rd as much and yet I still pay the average going rate. No matter how you think about it, they are making money off of me by buying my energy low and selling it high.
That is not unfair to them. And it is fair to me for the privlidge. Plus it saves them having to add more infrastructure to meet the growing demand, since our solar arrays are providing that peak load. Bob -----Original Message----- From: EV <ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org> On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator via EV Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 3:05 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Cc: EVDL Administrator <evp...@drmm.net> Subject: Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (economics) 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
