disincentive to conserve

Doesn't make sense, what's the kwh per month? Has to be a limit.

They're residential rates. Once your lil grow operation or car charging business or crypto rig grows to an appreciable size and starts slurping serious power you're also going to run into zoning problems, this is frigging CA we're talking about.

Meanwhile, grow operations or car car charging business that end up spending more money than they take in tends to be its own consumption dis-incentivization.

The area in between where you're sucking just enough to max out your residential-rated feed for years but your business isn't growing or going bust seems like a serous edge case.

BTW IDK if it works the same in most jurisdictions in CA but if you want to open a business account at most banks operating in MA as a"DBA" you have to go to your local jurisdiction's town clerk to get the proper documents issued, and they're going to want to have the zoning inspector come and look at your situation before they grant it, regardless if it's just a 6 by 8 home office, or even a walk-in closet. Been there, done that..

Since the sun shines a lot there, one could go off-grid, totally. But, the laws in California might not allow that, legally ?

Florida is kind of like that.

Looks like electric socialism.

boB

The kind of socialism where everyone ends up with a lower bill tends to be pretty popular across a wide swath of American society, so long as there isn't a "D"-word associated with the policy.

Not saying it couldn't work actually. I don't think the D word even needs to be used.

We all have a certain amount of necessary socialism but it's more like a safety net I think some call it. Like, paying for road maintenance for instance. Taxes pay for it which is how it should be. Not that taxes by themselves are a simple matter.

boB

On Sunday, 16 April 2023 at 17:31:31 UTC-7, Fred Bloggs wrote: ..

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The change in net metering, NEM 3.0, came into effect a few days ago.

Existing NEM 2.0 agreement holders are grandfathered in for up to 20 years providing there are no significant changes to their system.

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