net metering hookup nightmares?
spaco
company wants $25,000 for special equipment for hooking up for net
metering. Is it like this in the USA?
Pete Stanaitis
Bob
no.
That sounds like the price to string lines to a rural lot that isn't
already served by the utility. My change-over to net metering merely
required a swap-out of the meter. I'm sure there was more time spent
filling out paper than unplugging and plugging the meter.
Bob
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daestrom
"spaco" <sp...@baldwin-telecom.net> wrote in message
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>I recently talked to a guy in Manitoba CA, who said that their power
>company wants $25,000 for special equipment for hooking up for net
>metering. Is it like this in the USA?
>
It varies from state to state, but generally, no. That sounds like the cost
to install a second metering system to measure flow in the opposite
direction with special metering.
In the US, if your unit is under a certain size (so that fault analysis
calculations don't have to be redone), it can be as little as just getting
an inspection that your system meets code and has a UL-listed inverter.
daestrom
Nelson Gietz
Manitoba Hydro never talks about solar, but they do about wind energy,
probably because they're experimenting with a turbine farm.
Main source is hydro dams along the Churchill and Nelson rivers,
and we have possibly the lowest hydro rates in the world... well,
North America anyway. My latest bill shows a rate of CDN$ .0579...
not even six cents per kWh.
At that rate, the only rationale to go solar is where you're some
distance off the grid. Net metering would seem to be a non-starter even if
it were a free hookup.
BTW, I have a solar installation in nearby Ontario. The up-front cost
was a fraction of what a line in would have cost (would have been partly
submarine cable in this case).
Having lights when a tree has knocked out power to everyone else on the
lake? ...priceless!
Nelson