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Originally Posted by conradpdx
Now I personally wouldn't implement any kinda of rate reduction for the infrastructure, as a matter of fairness to the property owners that are investing into the system. Each person with such a system has their own systems to maintain (that they are personally paying for) and are contributing to the common good. And it could stall reinvestment in system upgrades and expansion. After all, the more potential for profit under this system, the more power the property owners will want to produce.
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Why should you be able to sell power to your neighbour who doesn’t have any PV through the grid and the grid owner not get a cut? The grid owner also suffers the instability problem of your generation, he has to hold the reserve for when you decide not to supply and there is still demand.
The utility has cost just beyond operation of the grid, it has engineering costs, meter readers and an administration to manage everything. There are a lot of hidden ancillaries not seen by Joe public.
You need to hammer on your state representatives, every jurisdiction is different wrt laws on these things.