Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S

Re:Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S by stale2002 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:48PM (#17511628)

Highly polluting energy sources are not paying to clean up the environmental costs that they produce. Maybe THEY are the free riders.

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Re:Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S by hueving on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:37PM (#17511770)

From some externality to society perspective, sure. But that's definitely not true of a grid operation cost perspective.

A coal power plant does not get paid retail rates for the power it generates. The utility company charges more precisely to pay for transmission and the people to maintain it.

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Re:Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S by stale2002 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:11PM (#17517675)

Ok, so what?

Let's punish the free riders and reward the people who are reducing the total societial cost of energy.

The fact that solar owners get access to the energy grid for free seems like a clever way to punish the free riders by increasing their costs in a roundabout way.

Don't want to pay the higher costs for your power grid? Then upgrade to cleaner energy! Sounds great.

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Re:Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S by hueving on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:08AM (#17547648)

You're punishing the wrong people, why is that difficult to understand?

The companies that operate grids are not the free riders. By having idiotic legislation that allows solar owners to free ride the grid, you only punished the utility company. Sometimes they own power plants, sometimes they don't.

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