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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (139640)	8/6/2008 9:32:18 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 306849

I'd expect some fee for the service of effective storage, just like in Ag I pay a fee for capacity availability independent of KWH used. If I can switch on or off a 50KW load, but don't use it 24/7, the utility must still size their network for the sum of all those loads. These "on demand" fees effectively double my irrigation electric rate. The real question is how much would you invest in generation vs. storage components for your system, if you could get effective storage off the grid? As long as there is a nuke, hydro, coal, oil, etc plant providing even 50% or so of the total daily capacity, the grid can function as storage. But one should clearly expect to pay to keep the grid functional, return some profit, etc.