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Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by ryao on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:58PM (#13456575)
I suspect that their constituents wanted this.

Anyway, it is possible that solar will phase it out anyway, except in a more distributed manner. Rooftop solar is not banned after all.

Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by icebraining on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:26PM (#13456784)
Maybe, but rooftop solar without feed-in requires big local batteries to provide the majority of energy of a home, since otherwise you'll need to use utility-produced energy during the night and cloudy days.
Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by theptip on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:30PM (#13457237)
> Those "eligible resources" are defined solely as coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, oil, and individual net metering.

Are you referring to something other than net metering of consumer renewables when you say "feed in"? I thought that net metering was a policy that's fairly friendly to residential solar.

Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by icebraining on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:32PM (#13457253)
Ah, no, I simply had missed that bit :)
Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by ams6110 on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:38PM (#13456882)
It also fails if you have a cloudy week, unless you have a local standby generator