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    If you could provide power to your neighbors, would you?

    I see. As I said, net metering rules are a weak point of mine so thanks for sending through that information. I understand the argument now. The spread between the wholesale prices and the residential prices represents the gross profit PG&E takes when selling electricity. Residential customers...
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    If you could provide power to your neighbors, would you?

    I'm not familiar with the NEM debate, but I would agree that wholesale prices would be awful for rooftop solar which peaks in production during the lowest priced hours of the day. Batteries would benefit from having wholesale prices because they could capture realtime high priced hours. I'm not...
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    If you could provide power to your neighbors, would you?

    It sounds like the concern is flexibility? If you were able to cap how much capacity they were allowed to control, and could remove the vehicle from enrollment at any time, would that change things for you?
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    If you could provide power to your neighbors, would you?

    What if retail customers could be paid wholesale prices and participate in ancillary service markets?
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    If you could provide power to your neighbors, would you?

    The grid is more unstable each year due to increasing renewable penetration without sufficient energy storage. It was designed for slow, stable, turbine-based generators and we are offsetting them with massive banks of inverters that don't contribute a fraction of the stability. The grid of the...