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Originally Posted by thingstodo
BOO!
I had hopes that a coop would be less draconian than a utility company would be. But I guess small people with low self-esteem like to inflict petty inconveniences and penalties on others ... because they can .. no matter what size the organization is.
Are you able to take the solar offline (no grid tie) and just turn it off when your batteries are full and you have no further loads?
I have a very small system (3 solar panels) and while I am experimenting it is definitely NOT grid tied. Too much paperwork.
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A coop is a smaller entity, so the negative externalities of any individual solar installation has a greater proportion of impact than a large utility with more customers. With a large utility, costs can be distributed across a larger number of consumers to hide the impact.
Back in the day of mechanical meters, it was possible to do grid-tied guerilla solar. In other words, the utility didn't know and had no way of knowing because the meter simply ran backwards. As long as net consumption was slightly higher than solar production, the net would simply appear to the utility as extremely low electricity consumption.