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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean there are also reasons to buy an EV that have nothing to do with the environment.  I've gotten poop, gum, spit and other disgusting things on my hands using gas pumps.  I just charge my EV at home so that doesn't happen with that car.[/quote]

Yeah, one of the biggest reasons I got an EV was I got solar on my roof and was running a credit every month. Pepco won't refund you the difference and I needed a new car anyway so it was win-win. I got a Model 3 and any other car I was looking at was going to be in that price range anyway, this way I get free "gas" and loads better acceleration than anything else in that price range. The environmental benefits are great but I'd have done it for the financial and performance benefits alone.  [/quote]

[b]Pepco won't refund overages? [/b]When we installed solar in ~2015 they did in DC. We no longer own that home, but that is news to me.[/quote]

Thought exercise. Try going to your favorite pizza restaurant. Order a large pizza and maybe a bottle of wine.

While you're waiting for your food, take out some flour and an egg and some water and yeast and start rolling some dough on your table. When your pizza comes, tell the server that you want to send the dough you just made back to the kitchen so that they can use it for the next customer, and you would like the dough that you provided to be credited to you on your check.

This is what people who expect solar net metering are essentially demanding from a business. It is something that was very popular in the very early years, and everyone *loved* to talk about it. "I'm selling my excess power BACK to the utility!!"

Sure, and you're also requiring all the people who don't have solar to subsidize your use of the distribution network, the substations (all the grid stuff) and your use of electricity when the sun is not shining. It's completely unsustainable from a basic costing perspective, and I would try to explain this for years and tell people that it would not last, and nobody wanted to hear it.

/rant[/quote]

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