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Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta
Alberta's approach to Solar policy is a fair market approach, you always purchase and sell at the same fixed price.
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This is going to be an issue for the incumbent generators as the penetration of solar increases to the point that it starts to affect the pool price.
This all is resolved by moving retail pricing towards a Time-of-use rate scheme.
Paying people the same rate for electricity up or down is inherently unfair as it doesn't reflect the market price for that power at the time of dispatch. Fair would be paying the pool price for that dispatch according to the usual settlement rules.
I do agree with your point that early adopters need to be incentivized, but would suggest that the industry is mature enough and those incentives are no longer needed.
Last point, using Ontario as support for any argument in the electricity space is akin to comparing oneself to a serial killer.