Re: Net Metering: "Freeing the Grid"

Don:

You apparantly have not read our report. We have an entire section
that answers this "cross subsidy" argument.

Homeowners and small businesses that generate excess electricity
contribute it to the central transmission grid. WIthout compensation,
regulated utilities turn around and sell that same electrictricity to
other customers at a profit. So, who is stealing from whom?

As for subsidization....there is a subsidy going on. Net metered
customers, by providing excess electricity at the periods of peak
demand on the system are not only offsetting the most expensive kind of
electricity (peaking) that would otherwise have to be bought by
regulated utilities on the spot market, these same customers are
subsidizing the reliability of the transmission grid for utilities that
would otherwise have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on
infrastructure investments to ensure transmission stability.

In the absense of net metering and compensation of excess electricity
at the retail rate, electiricity companies (and the non-net metered
customers they service) are benefitting from the increased grid
reliability without having to invest in expensive infrastructure
upgrades.

There is stealing going on all right....but it's the net metered
customers who are the victims.

Chris Cooper
Network for New Energy Choices

On Nov 21, 12:16 pm, Don Lancaster <d...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ron Herfurth wrote:
"Don Lancaster" <d...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pluto wrote:

Net Metering: "Freeing the Grid"

The Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) report "Freeing the Grid," is
the first report
ever to rank and grade the effectiveness of 34 state programs designed to
help
homeowners and small businesses generate their own distributed energy and
sell the
excess back to the central transmission grid. These 'net metering'
programs have been
described as having the most potential of any policy tool at any level of
government to
"green" American electricity sources.

"Every homeowner and every small business is a potential source of
reliable, renewable
electricity for their community," noted NNEC Executive Director Chris
Cooper. "Smart
utilities realize that we will have to tap all of these small sources to
meet future
demand."

By comparing regulations with customer participation rates, NNEC was able
to identify
which states had the best programs and which states had the worst (and
why).

New Jersey ranked first out of 34 states with net metering programs.
Indiana and
Arkansas were profiled as states with "worst practices". Oklahoma ranked
last. Read the
report to find out what your state is doing to require net-metering.

The Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) is committed to providing state
and local
governments with new ideas and useful information to promote clean,
affordable power
from local, renewable energy sources. NNEC is promoting creative ideas
for financing
community-based clean energy, helping to dispel misinformation about
renewable energy in
the media and advocating for critical utility policy reforms that will
usher in a new
world of energy choices for all Americans.

Net metering is an outright scam that flat out robs the majority of
utility users.

It is stealing, plain and simple.
Don Lancaster

Who are you accusing of stealing from whom?
Is the power company stealing from the builidng generating the extra juice
or the other way around?
ronThe power company is forced to buy electricity above their avoided cost
peaking. While rewarding people for putting gasoline destroying net
energy sinks on their roofs.

The other power company customers have to pay for this ludicrousity.

http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf

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