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Re:California pulls the plug on rooftop solar by danans on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:13PM (#34031095)
Oddly, PG&E charged me $0 to upgrade my service drop from 100A to 200A. I was pretty surprised.
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Re:California pulls the plug on rooftop solar by BuckyBeaver on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:26PM (#34032415)
Because you want to use more electricity at minimal cost to them.
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Re:California pulls the plug on rooftop solar by mindslight on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:10PM (#34033259)
Did they actually change the feeder upstream of the wires that you own? The sizing of those isn't regulated by the NEC the way your wires are, and in my experience POCOs don't really care how much your lights dim when a motor kicks on.
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Re:California pulls the plug on rooftop solar by danans on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:38PM (#34033845)
> Did they actually change the feeder upstream of the wires that you own?

Yeah. Completely new feeder. From what I saw it wasn't a ton of work, maybe a few hours, but hours nonetheless.

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