You’re getting absolutely railed on your connection charges; that’s like $4.88CAD a day!?
Your professional opinion is on point 🤣
Yeah. Deregulation happened under our previous idiot premier and he parachuted into a cushy job at one of the utility companies after he had a tantrum and quit for an essay worth of reasons that lead to our current predicament with the alt right. Anyways, nothing sus about that!
We can sell back to the grid here too, but it’s not as great a deal with only really generating power in the summer months. From what I’ve seen locals can basically break even covering the fees on average over a year with the remnants of the solar programs UCP didn’t destroy at best. That’s also deliberate. They won’t let you install a system bigger than the power you consume over an average of three years. So what savvy people do is overconsume on purpose to get a bigger solar setup approved. I might do this one day, but it’ll be DIY to save 15k from hiring goons to mount panels to my roof and run the wires. I can do that myself.
I don’t anticipate any cratering in foreseeable future because despite the upgrades…they were already overloaded before and borderline now. They’ve (gov) actually been going around and asking manufacturing plants to shut down in summer months strategically and offering lump sums each time they participate when asked to make it worth shutting down. Clown show.
There was a solar farm getting built…but Amazon owned it so, can’t say I was excited. Probably a dead deal now with everything going on.
We had a not too dissimilar experience here in Australia with the privatisation and/or ‘deregulatory’ sabotage of our public infrastructure (SECV in the ‘90s, Telstra in the ‘00s, NBN in the ‘10s); I liken it to pigeon politics - they fly in, shit on everything, then promptly fuck off!
I imagine with the amount of snow cover you guys get up there - solar wouldn’t be feasible for ~40% of the year and likely cause massive load balancing issues in the summer due to the glut of supply, so that’s probably why they try to cap the size of systems you can install.
Feels very short sighted though, could be putting surplus production towards industry, rather than incentivising them to shut down!
Best of luck to you, hopefully Carney is going to be able to help address some of the issues you guys are facing!
Your professional opinion is on point 🤣
Yeah. Deregulation happened under our previous idiot premier and he parachuted into a cushy job at one of the utility companies after he had a tantrum and quit for an essay worth of reasons that lead to our current predicament with the alt right. Anyways, nothing sus about that!
We can sell back to the grid here too, but it’s not as great a deal with only really generating power in the summer months. From what I’ve seen locals can basically break even covering the fees on average over a year with the remnants of the solar programs UCP didn’t destroy at best. That’s also deliberate. They won’t let you install a system bigger than the power you consume over an average of three years. So what savvy people do is overconsume on purpose to get a bigger solar setup approved. I might do this one day, but it’ll be DIY to save 15k from hiring goons to mount panels to my roof and run the wires. I can do that myself.
I don’t anticipate any cratering in foreseeable future because despite the upgrades…they were already overloaded before and borderline now. They’ve (gov) actually been going around and asking manufacturing plants to shut down in summer months strategically and offering lump sums each time they participate when asked to make it worth shutting down. Clown show.
There was a solar farm getting built…but Amazon owned it so, can’t say I was excited. Probably a dead deal now with everything going on.
We had a not too dissimilar experience here in Australia with the privatisation and/or ‘deregulatory’ sabotage of our public infrastructure (SECV in the ‘90s, Telstra in the ‘00s, NBN in the ‘10s); I liken it to pigeon politics - they fly in, shit on everything, then promptly fuck off!
I imagine with the amount of snow cover you guys get up there - solar wouldn’t be feasible for ~40% of the year and likely cause massive load balancing issues in the summer due to the glut of supply, so that’s probably why they try to cap the size of systems you can install.
Feels very short sighted though, could be putting surplus production towards industry, rather than incentivising them to shut down!
Best of luck to you, hopefully Carney is going to be able to help address some of the issues you guys are facing!