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To: TimF who wrote (857264)	5/15/2015 1:25:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575758

A driving factor in the proliferation of low-cost solar has been a policy known as net metering, in which customers are credited for the electricity they put back on the grid, through, for instance, rooftop solar. "In other words the driving factor is subsidies, in this case not from the government" If a utility buying electricity from a provider is subsidizing it, sure. I prefer to think I'm harvesting sunbeams, and selling the XS to my wholesaler for about 5 cents/ per KWH, so they can sell it to a customer for between 15 and 36 cents, in the best tradition of capitalism. You don't me expect to give away my crop for free, do you? Our business association provides them with a handsome profit. "Its not just that the small solar producers aren't paying their share of the grid costs" I pay about $4.50/ month for all that; even covers decomissioning of nukes. They take it off my credit. "The electricity is sometimes actually worthless" Electricity is never worthless. That's why our utilities are required to store it. California Sets Energy Storage Target of 1.3GW by 2020 greentechmedia.com "they also produce neither peaking nor base-load power" How California is incentivizing solar to solve the Duck Curve South-facing systems produce more solar, but west-facing panels may produce more valuable solar to the grid. utilitydive.com Rat can't, cuz he is on the east slope of a hill.