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Originally Posted by JSH
Why would a homeowner feeding back into the grid pay the utility line fees? The power isn't going back to the power plant miles away it is going maybe 100 feet to the house next door.
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Because the grid doesn't work without all of its parts. (Or most of them: there's of course built-in redundancy, but that's part of the cost of being reliable.) Nor can you say that the electricity you generate is just going to the house next door. It's going everywhere on the grid.
If this bothers you, buy a Powerwall or other battery system, and go off the grid entirely :-)