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Originally Posted by darcane
Unless I missed it, I didn't see anywhere that the net metering customers have a greater cost than other users, just that they don't pay it.
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But there are issues with net metering customers (and power producers in general) that don't exist with customers that are consumers* only. The power that goes out has to match the system frequency, and there are potential issues with system powerflows & stability. (Or would be, if you had a lot of net metering customers dumping power to the grid.)
*At least residential customers. You can have major issues with large industrial users, too. For instance, back when I was doing that sort of thing, there was a company that wanted to build a steel recycling plant that used an electric arc furnace to melt scrap steel. Problem was that it would have browned out about a quarter of the state every time they started it up.