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Originally Posted by jsmih
If someone wants to use NV Energy assets (power plants, transmission lines, etc) at night they DO in fact need to pay their fair share of the cost to build, maintain, and operate those assests. For most of the US, the cost of electricity itself is probably about half of the bill. The other half is for the grid infrastructure and operational costs.
If someone doesn't want to pay NVE energy grid access fees, they always have the option to disconnect the NVE line to their home. Of course, they would have to pay to put in a battery storage system to handle their load at night and during the parts of the day when their panels aren't generating enough power for their load. They would probably also have to put in more panels, since they would have to generate the all the extra electricity needed to charge the batteries.
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Nope, you don't have the option to disconnect. It's ILLEGAL to be "off the grid" now in most states.
And as I said earlier...with a combination of solar and wind and batteries...you could be completely independent of the power company.
But the govt. has taken that option away from people.
By doing that they save the utility company and the jobs it provides.
So there are two sides to the coin. If everyone were able to produce their own clean energy for free...then hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country would be lost and the "power grid" would be obsolete.
On the other hand...everyone could have free energy and the power grid would be obsolete.
I guess my real point is: There are claims that man is causing climate change. And that climate change is going to be "bad".
And some politicians claim that it's THE number one priority danger facing the world.
IF all that is true...then it seems to me that Utility Companies and their jobs be damned. It needs to be the govt.'s number one mission to stop climate change. And a huge step towards that would be to have solar panels, wind power, and any other renewable energy source running independently for every home in America.
Instead...the govt. is doing just the exact OPPOSITE.
So somebody, somewhere is lying to us.
Either the people claiming that the Earth is doomed.
Or the people saying everything is "okay".
And in the end...they are one and the same.
Politicians TALK. But they don't really follow through. Back in 1940 when a REAL problem faced the nation...the Democrats mobilized our country for war. Rations went into effect. Car manufacturers stopped making cars and started making military vehicles. It was an emergency.
And now...they say that climate change is worse than any war or enemy.
But they do...nothing.