Rooftop Solar Dims Under Pressure From Utility Lobbyists

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What off-grid battery system can YOU acquire AND maintain for $360/year?

Your compensation for participating in a net-metering plan is for getting retail (and not wholesale) pricing for the electricity that you export to the grid and also avoiding the expense of your own on-site battery system to avoid sending power to the grid.

Both parties benefit from net-metering. To argue they don't is disingenuous. Feel free to argue the relative value of the benefit that each party receives, but not to say that it's just a one-way street in either direction.

Yep ... but it is not just any battery back-up. It replaces a battery that provides unlimited load and unlimited capacity. The only somewhat practical alternative I can think of is a personal fossil fuel generator as a tertiary back-up.

@TheTalkingMule trust me, I thought about ways to cut out the utility entirely using a PHEV as my tertiary back-up but I decided that would be a case of cutting off my nose to spite my face. I'm much happier with the idea of having two EVs instead of one EV and one PHEV; my lack of expertise is not exposed; and weeks like last winter with little sunshine -- albeit unusual -- do not have to be big, big deals. The few cumulative net days a year that I could be burning gasoline in a PHEV instead of coal at the plant was not worth all the costs and risks.