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[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Net metering is unfair to anyone who doesn't own a home. If you are connected to the grid, you are relying on it to provide energy when you aren't producing enough, so you should still pay your fair share of distribution/maintenance/etc.

If anything, they should pay you the wholesale generation rate at the time the energy is sent into the grid, not the year-round retail all-in cost.

In your case, it's great that you are storing enough energy for your own use, but there are plenty of people without any storage who rely completely on the grid at night, but then rely on their poorer, non-landowning neighbors to cover the cost of grid maintenance and energy production at more expensive times of day.

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