They do that here too. But you miss my primary point. Almost everywhere except residential electric, using more of something gets you a discount. Costco/Sams live on that and that is consumer. Even Home Dept/Lowes does "packs" where buy 1 light switch 99c ea, buy 10 80c ea. Volume discounts. Instead many utilities including mine penalize you for using more. And yet they reward industrial. It makes no sense. Well it does, residential has few choices, so they are stuck. So utilities can gouge and do. Large industrial does what alcoa used to do, build their own generation. And of course musk has now done that in Memphis, and even got waivers so he could pollute more with his "temporary" and yet semi permanent Nat Gas gen's.

I'm going to have to disagree. It does take a spine, because what the dc guys argue is give us power [and tax] breaks because we are bringing in JOBS. And JOBS are like for the children. Always works. Of course they always whisper the puny amount of jobs they will generate.

And the true irony is that for common residential rates, they use tiers. I think we have 5. Tier1 is like a nickel/KWh and is only a couple hundred KWh, tier 2 is like a dime, tier 3 is around 15c, tier 4 is 20 and tier 5 is maybe 30, never hit that one. Meanwhile commercial get price breaks for using more.

Especially considering Austin is the liberal green capital of TX. Truly it makes zero sense the way they have screwed over the 1st adopters. Let's just say I have pointed out to several people in town who have considered panels and now they realize what a shitshow tens of thousands of dollars could become. I went from being an advocate to a watch your back.

Somebody mod this informative. The summary now makes sense and why Linus was upset.

What, One of the few O/S'es you can have on RISC-V is linux. Windows not so much.

No I'm not. I foolishly thought "the deal" would not change when I did it. As it was, "the deal" barely covered payback of the expenditure over the life of the system. And I was not even factoring in interest into the deal I could have gotten if I just dumped the money in a savings account let alone a decent return. I never would have done it had I know they'd change the deal at a whim. Like I said, corp's are malevolent., including cities that own utilities. They trick people whenever they can. And I'd point out, that the energy I consume travels nowhere down any of their lines, so they have zero transmission cost on panels I gen/consume simultaneously. I'd be slightly less angry if they at least "net metered" that energy. But charging me for electrons that get moved by my panels down my wires to my AC seems a bit greedy.

For me the dead giveaway was it will be powered by fusion. Well, no, there are no working fusion reactors. None, zero. But then after their 80 year trial, maybe it will be available. That is 2 "fusion is only 40 years away" periods.

In a perfect world, maybe. World is not perfect. Austin Energy which used to be a really good utility 20 years ago now sucks like I guess the ones in Cal. I put in panels some 20 years ago, and we had net metering. It was pricey back then, but I knew prices for juice would go up and with net, the value of my juice would go up. Hence I might get my money back. Around 8 years after installing (maybe 1/3rd of the way to getting my money back) they went from net to we pay you 11c/kwh and you pay us 10-12 depending on monthly usage. Came out about the same as net. But then they started to raise the temp on the frog(me). Rates I paid creeped up (their reasoning was juice is more expensive to produce) and the rate they paid me was going down (with their reason being juice is cheaper to produce, huh?). Now I'm paying 12-15+ and they are paying me 9. Nothing is stopping them from cutting my 9 even lower and raising their 12-15. Nothing. And they will. As I've gotten older, I know one thing to the core. Corporations are malevolent. They are not benevolent. They will screw you, although with a smile usually.

Curious, I too have recently thought about adding batteries with transfer to avoid my juice mixing with their juice. In my case, they pay me 9c/kwh and charge me 11+ for joules that are routed from my panels to my home. All they are doing is stabilizing the 60Hz for the inverter and consuming the excess I don't need.

That said, do you plan on dropping PGE completely? Is that viable? Because dropping the utility completely saves me the monthly connect fee of around 20/mo and it too is increasing.

If you are how did you calculate how much battery? If you are not did you segment your load so that most of the time the battery/solar side is about equal to solar production so you don't constantly need to switch the loads around? Have you read the fine print of the grid connect? Do they specifically say you can't disconnect your solar from their grid? This may only be true if they gave you a rebate I think.

I saw the 150/season and thought that's crazy. If anyone knows, in Cal if you do this, does Cal use time of day pricing for this? If you got 35c/KWh when you supply at peak (or even more as I think wholesale can reach numbers as bad as a buck a kwh) and you could charge up when prices are low say 2c/KWh, then you'd be making 33c/KWh. If you cycled 10KWh/day, 3.30/day or almost 100/mo. That makes sense with your battery cost numbers. The 150 would be a nice add for having batteries located in your house and the inverter costs that are also probably borne by the resident. I'm all about the numbers. One final note, I'd get that deal in blood with the utility. These are long term investments, and I know my utility changes "the deal" every year or 2. So far, not to my advantage. I am now at the "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" stage and don't plan on getting fooled again.

I don't have house dreams much anymore, but a few decades ago I'd have many where I explored the rooms in a fictitional house. My grandma used to say once you have explored all the rooms in the house, you'll die.

It sounds like you are a fairly active dreamer, or at least you remember them when you wake up. I too do this and can have some very weird ones if I am trying to solve a difficult problem. Things where shapes are somehow ideas etc. I do think everyone dreams. Its the part of remembering that is different. For me, most dreams are purged from my memory after anywhere from minutes to a few hours after waking. Although I've had some doozies that I still recall one I had in college, so almost 50 years ago. I also used to have flying dreams which were the absolute best when I had a really really happy period in my life and I've had the also common running but can't get away dreams in highly stressed times. I think dreams are just a release mechanism for the brain.

Optimum is the keyword. P&R settles for less than optimum to achieve results in reasonable times. The revolutions in P&R tend to be faster while still achieving good results.

"Good faith" and trump just really should not be in the same sentence. I'll be surprised if he does not do his usual TACO with putin. I expect the "anger" at putin is fabricated for media purposes.