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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
As far as I can tell, aside from California state politics don't seem to play into solar grid tie much.
It's more to do with the private energy providers.
Like out here, Excell energy which spans several states likes to make it difficult to do solar.
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Solar is hugely political in every state. The battlefront is net metering. Do utilities have to pay customers for the electricity they product and feed back into the grid. Utilities want that electricity (produced at peak time) for free. Solar companies was utilities to pay peak rates. The most popular compromise seems to be kWh credits. The homeowner gets a credit for electricity produced and can use those credits when their production is lower than their needs and they pull from the grid. That should be an easy sell- the utility gets to trade inexpensive off peak electricity for expensive peak electricity. However it isn’t. Utilities are used to getting what they want since most have a monopoly.