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southern MN | You said you are given, and you pay, 12 cents a kw for your electricity.
One is wholesale, and one is retail pricing.
If they are equal as I understand you to say, then the system is costing everyone as a subsidy to the solar panels.
Electric companies need to have peak energy production equipment sitting around. Solar panels only produce electricity when the sun shines. So on sunny days, they don't use their equipment, it sits around unused. But on cloudy days, they still need all the exact same equipment they always have needed to produce peak demands. They are not able to save on overhead at all.
indepebdent solar generation offered no releief or help to the centralized power companies. You leave them with less use (income producing) of their machinery but they need to maintain all of it anyhow. So they have to spread more costs over less generated electricity.
Both these things raise electric costs for all of us, except those who have net metered panels.
I'm not against panels, and not against them getting some help,along the way.
But we should be honest about it, that it is a subsidy we all pay for with increased electric costs.
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Solar panel on hog barn??
