Interesting information in this thread. When we first had solar panels installed back in 2014 we did not have a net metering. So for a few days we paid retail for energy that we got from the utility (SLEMCO) and paid retail for all electricity that went to the grid. Net metering was so very much better. When we overproduced electricity it was banked, but we were not paid for it. Instead when we needed more electricity than we produced we paid nearly full retail price.
As of January 1, 2020 no customers were allowed to get net metering. Those of us who already had net metering were grandfathered in for a few years. When the grandfathering runs out I guess that we will have to pay in order to give our excess electricity to SLEMCO. I also consider that the electricity that we get from SLEMCO is generated using: Natural gas - probably from fracking Coal - all coal begins at some level of dirty Nuclear - no matter what proponents of nuclear there is always spent fuel that takes many centuries to be “safe.” My solar panels and inverters added some pollution when they were made and again when they no longer work well, but in between there are no fumes or spent reactor rods to deal with. We recently added some LiFePO4 batteries. Yes, they were not cheap, and in whatever time is left in my life I may not recover the cost. But I will not be adding a lot of pollution that my grandchildren (and your grandchildren) will have to deal with. Yes, I am a fan of the young lady from Sweden, Greta Thunberg. Bobby Keeland Louisiana On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:30 AM Jay Summet via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Charge up a 100 kWh EV at the 0.3 kWh site in the day, drive it to the > other site and discharge it at night? > > Jay > > On 3/21/21 11:28 AM, Willie via EV wrote: > > > > > > On 3/21/21 10:18 AM, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > > > >> Hmm... If you're on good terms with your neighbor, you could run a > >> wire between houses and sell your excess power to him in the summer, > >> and he could reimburse you in the winter. > > > > That highlights a problem I have long considered but not found a viable > > solution to. I have one meter where my excess production is worth > > $.03/kwh and another where it is worth $.06. Unfortunately, the > > separation is about 1/3 mile. I would love to have the $.03 energy > > available to use (or sell) on my $.06 meter. A neighbor suggested a > > pair of high voltage transformers but I doubt the practicality. And I > > doubt I could afford the wire size necessary to do a few kw over that > > distance. My $.03 production is limited by my utility to about 15kw by > > the utility's transformer. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210321/8a505014/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
