Southpasfan
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No need to apologize, its the IOUs which should be apologizing to everyone for intentionally muddying up an argument which matters to all.Ok, my apologies if everyone was referring to actual consumption versus net. I had the net filter in my head
The posts about consumption are not off topic but I think illustrate the arguments we need to make. I keep posting because I want to figure out the best way to say this to cut and paste into public comments.
So, even with my large system, yesterday was typical.
Total home consumption was 48kwh. A low day, I did not charge either EV. Total production was 53kwh.
When the sun was up, the system "covered" 19kwh of the 48. This is what would basically happen with any solar system large enough to produce at least 4kwh. Because my system is large, it spends most of the day over 4 kwh, up to 10.7 max yesterday.
So, stopping right here, that's a pretty significant reduction in consumption, 39%. We know that the utilities cannot even handle a 39% reduction in demand under their economic model. This is where a few light bulbs here and there, shaving off what? 5%, is one thing. Rooftop solar which at a minimum cuts over 30% is a real threat.
So then what? If I only had solar, 34kwh would have gone to the grid, it had nowhere else to go. The utilities don't even want this, and they sure as hell dont' want to give someone a 20 cent to 30 cent per kwh credit for something they can already buy at 3 cents. That's it. It has nothing to do with poor v. rich people.
Because I have PWs, and because the day before was good, 31kwh went to the PWS and then 3 went to the grid. Not much to the grid, so they like me so far.
Problem is that my PWs, covered the rest of the day, easily. So as a customer yesterday my reduction was 100%, from 48 kwh without a system to zero.
This is where they have spun "extreme conservation" (i.e., could have been on vacation with the entire house shut off) into "not paying my fair share" - its true, I didn't pay anything, but its not like my not paying anything is directed at poor people.