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o-Valar-Morghulis-o t1_isbsage wrote

Get a home battery storage system as well and don't send the power back into the grid. This is the way.

The power companies have seen this coming a long time and they refuse to upgrade the grids to smart bidirectional grids. They prefer to mash everyone's power into the old grid and then lobby the government to stop hurting their profits and power. They also lobby for grid upgrades but not the kind of upgrades that support everyone collecting energy. They just want the old grid which keeps them fully with their foot on all the distribution.

Turns out, when they have an abundance of power or power fluctuations..the old grid system does a shitty job of taking advantage of it and we experience some waste at the large power plants. Those wasted are still charged out to all the customers. And the big utilities say "see? New ways no worky derp".

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