All of these things would be helpful.
Some part of the overgeneration conditions (I am not saying ALL just some part) is rooftop solar without ESS.
Who will pay for all the new storage?
Under the current NEM contracts the non-solar customers will have to pay for this storage.
My example above was simply the utilities pay for it and add it on to the bill. Under my NEM I paid for my own storage. LADWP does not have enough rate arbitrage to have any pay back at all.
And my point was that the bill would go up for everyone, but by a very acceptable amount to do our bit to save the planet.
Plus we get even better air.
The reason its not being done, I suggest, especially to Zabe who knows is that this is the current set of players and their interests.
1. If you are a utility level energy provider, you have to meet that 3 cents per kwh target or you don't exist. That's why you don't already see utility level ESS. First of all, the actual utilities don't finance or own the production. But putting that aside, lets say we all decided to stop yakking and build a giant ESS storage factility. Sure, the utilities could pass the 11 cents along, but we have to get it built in the first place and private financing would be more or less impossible as there is noguarantee SouthPas Fan's plan will find a cash flow.
2. If you are a solar installer, I mean good for your but your just trying to make a living, not save the world, you can't get batteries, especially PWs as it is, so you are not going to turn down work. Plus, you are going to be against NEM 3.0 or anything that will hurt your business. The person sitting in th aisle at Costco is going to give you a blank stare if you ask about the CAISO curtailment curve.
3. If you are a typical customer, all of this is some discussion only for real geeks with way too much time on their hands. Not that most customers are too capitlist or not enough, its just too much analysis for the general public. And by the way, the stupid SGIP program, which wasn't even that good, was the only think to incentivize private ESS that I was aware of, and so you can't rely on individuals to do it.
4. Finally, the utilities, as we now know, are purely middlemen, with most of the responsibility as to the grid and in the case of IOUs, shareholders, they are not really paying much attention to the environment, its all a PR move for them. They just pass along costs. The only thing that gets their attention is a threat to their profits. Period.
5. CAISO is working to maintain the grid, it has no responsibility, at all, as to what "the grid" actually is.
6. Sadly, academics like Bornstein have the brains to figure this out, but instead they decided to spend two years wondering if anyone was being overcharged. Not a bad study, but sad as this discussion has done a better job than a bunch of tenured professors as to what the overall structure should be.
So its zero for six.