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Originally Posted by ken0042
That makes sense. I guess either way, a person using solar is either putting that power back onto the grid, or at least not consuming that power from the grid. So even if only 10-50 kwh goes back, there's still a lot of power that was not consumed.
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Solar is definitely great, and the comments about motor start up loads (which I think is where the beer fridge comment came from, obviously could have been better put) only really apply if you were going to go off grid, which doesn't make much sense if you live in a city.
I'd love to see the transmission charges become variable, because it would provide more incentive for conservation and things like solar. After all, not consuming power at your house has exactly the same effect as adding generation right where the load is, no transmission required. Under the current pricing, (where solar is around $2/watt installed) it's either something you can justify economically if you can cobble together a system and install it yourself, or you're doing it for lifestyle/green reasons as opposed to economics, which isn't that sustainable.