Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables
by icebraining on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:26PM
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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
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> 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
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Ah, no, I simply had missed that bit :)
Anyway, it is possible that solar will phase it out anyway, except in a more distributed manner. Rooftop solar is not banned after all.