Utilities wage campaign against rooftop solar - home-solar insurgency

[singular_me]

all those green government program$ to entice people to go solar, now going down the toilet
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‘Three years ago, the nation’s top utility executives gathered at a Colorado resort to hear warnings about a grave new threat to operators of America’s electric grid: not superstorms or cyberattacks, but rooftop solar panels.

If demand for residential solar continued to soar, traditional utilities could soon face serious problems, from “declining retail sales” and a “loss of customers” to “potential obsolescence,” according to a presentation prepared for the group. “Industry must prepare an action plan to address the challenges,” it said.

The warning, delivered to a private meeting of the utility industry’s main trade association, became a call to arms for electricity providers in nearly every corner of the nation. Three years later, the industry and its fossil-fuel supporters are waging a determined campaign to stop a home-solar insurgency that is rattling the boardrooms of the country’s government-regulated electric monopolies.’

march 19, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/utilities-sensing-threat-put-squeeze-on-booming-solar-roof-industry/2015/03/07/2d916f88-c1c9-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html

[7th trump]

If this is the same article I read a few weeks ago this only applies to home solar systems that are currently back feeding AC into the system that supplies power to the energy companies.
This does not apply to a closed systems where you charge batteries (not tied to the grid) to supply DC to LED light fixtures and such for your home lighting circuits.

[singular_me]

dont think so, costs for energy grid providers begin to skyrocket, it seems


summary paragraphs:
“It’s not about profits; it’s about protecting customers,” said Owens, said. “There are unreasonable cost shifts that do occur [with solar]. There is a grid that everyone relies on, and you have to pay for that grid and pay for that infrastructure.”

Solar-panel costs plunge

Residential solar panels have been widely available since the 1970s, but advances in the past decade have transformed home solar energy in many areas from an expensive novelty to a cost-competitive alternative to traditional power.

[7th trump]

dont think so, costs for energy grid providers begin to skyrocket, it seems


summary paragraphs:
“It’s not about profits; it’s about protecting customers,” said Owens, said. “There are unreasonable cost shifts that do occur [with solar]. There is a grid that everyone relies on, and you have to pay for that grid and pay for that infrastructure.”

Solar-panel costs plunge

Residential solar panels have been widely available since the 1970s, but advances in the past decade have transformed home solar energy in many areas from an expensive novelty to a cost-competitive alternative to traditional power.

It boils down to either everyone is on board to go "green" or everyone is not....which is the utilites having to relinquish their monopoly.
Its a fight between the utlities surviving the customers "going green" or the customers surviving the utilities by "going Green".
I say screw the utilities...they are a fiction anyway. And centrlized utilites was never an option for the founding father idea of a free America.

[mick silver]

there 7 homes here that are off the grid and sale power back to the power company the guy working in the office there told me this I ask if I could talk too the owners the guy told me no then I ask could he give my number to one of them again no.. I wanted to learn form them to see what the cost and there system was made by............... asshat

[Cebu_4_2]

there 7 homes here that are off the grid and sale power back to the power company the guy working in the office there told me this I ask if I could talk too the owners the guy told me no then I ask could he give my number to one of them again no.. I wanted to learn form them to see what the cost and there system was made by............... asshat

Knock on their doors? Utility company can't give out phone numbers lol. A one on one talk will give you a lot of information.

[mick silver]

I would Cebu but I don't know who are were they are ... been asking around I hope I can find out just one of them

[Cebu_4_2]

I would Cebu but I don't know who are were they are ... been asking around I hope I can find out just one of them

Look on the roofs.

[mick silver]

I do ... but you can build they for your systems . I would not want them on my house because of snow plus you can track the sun better with a racking set up ... http://www.johnsonsysteminc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMGP1515.jpg

[mick silver]

tennesee andy from old site posted pics of his system and sold power back to power company there an his system was on a rack that would track the sun for the most out of the sun