Re:Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-f...
by westurner on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:46PM
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Is this what we call "net metering" here in the US? Unfortunately this region only has "buy-all-sell-all", no intraday prices, and and still not enough storage to store solar from peak at noon until evening commute:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630917
A market economist might remark that
perhaps that shouldn't be surprising given the lack of intraday rates and the buy-all-sell-all policies.
> In the Netherlands (and the rest of western europe), we have hourly and quarterly energy pricing (opt-in), next to pricing plans that have one or two fixed tariffs during the day/year
So your policies create incentives for residential customers to become net producers of electricity (with resilient local storage)?
A market economist might remark that perhaps that shouldn't be surprising given the lack of intraday rates and the buy-all-sell-all policies.
> In the Netherlands (and the rest of western europe), we have hourly and quarterly energy pricing (opt-in), next to pricing plans that have one or two fixed tariffs during the day/year
So your policies create incentives for residential customers to become net producers of electricity (with resilient local storage)?