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The big problem is timing, if your neighbour's solar panels were at peak output in the night and yours in the day, the credit system works.
by throwaway329183 5y ago
The big problem is timing, if your neighbour's solar panels were at peak output in the night and yours in the day, the credit system works.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThat's not just a problem with being hooked up to the grid so you can altruistically use less of your own energy and donate the rest to other people. It's also a problem for billing Dave Rosenthal appropriately. Assuming he turns on lights at night, he's not using his own energy. No amount of solar generation will let you use power when the sun isn't shining. So he's not reducing the demand for (say) coal at night. But because he's being billed wrong, rolling over daytime power he doesn't use as if it were the nighttime power he does use, people still think he is.
- Taniwha 5y agogrid batteries do exactly this