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   Commander Kinsey to Rod Speed   
   Re: Very few solar panels on new houses   
   10 Jun 19 21:53:19   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:37:16 +0100, Rod Speed  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >   
   > "Daniel60"  wrote in message   
   > news:qdla79$p2m$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> Rod Speed wrote on 10/06/2019 1:23 AM:   
   >>> "Daniel60"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:qdik2p$dsg$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>> Rod Speed wrote on 7/06/2019 9:09 AM:   
   >>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> Surely you'll make at least roughly what you save by making your own   
   >>>>>> for what you use?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Nope, the electricity supplier doesn't pay you anything like what you   
   >>>>> pay them for the electricity.   
   >>>   
   >>>> But I didn't spend $Millions of Dollars installing a string of poles to   
   >>>> get power from Yallourn to my place when the panels are not producing   
   >>>> power either!!   
   >>>   
   >>> The only thing extra in your case is from the street cable to your house.   
   >>>   
   >>>> As it is, I'm guessing the Electricity Suppliers are paying me a heck of   
   >>>> a lot more for my excess power than it would cost them to produce ....   
   >>>> they pay me roughly the same (if not the exact same) as they charge my   
   >>>> next door neighbour to consume "their" power!!   
   >>>   
   >>> That varys with the state. Only Victoria is that stupid anymore.   
   >>   
   >> Hmm! If you want to call Victoria stupid, what about when they were paying   
   >> residents 60 cents (or something) for ever kW the people fed into the   
   >> system??   
   >   
   > Yep, only Labor was ever that stupid. They're our socialists for the yanks.   
   >   
   > And it was for every KW your system generated too, even if   
   > you used it yourself, not just for what was fed into the grid.   
      
   The UK was that stupid too, you got a second meter fitted to measure what you   
   generated.  The sensible thing would be to pay you for what you gave them, not   
   what you used aswell!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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