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> I meant the part where the OP had to go though an obscured workflow and wait over months to receive slow replies just to get the process moving to be paid for their solar contribution. This is the same workflow that commercial entities go through but employ an army of lawyers as expensive lubrication to keep the process moving. > If it was a long time because that was an inherent difficulty of complying with necess…
> This is the same workflow that commercial entities go through but employ an army of lawyers as expensive lubrication to keep the process moving. And? How does that make it any more defensible in the context of the point I was making there? What is that replying to? > Forgive me if I'm wrong here, but I think you're classifying regulations as primarily for safety reasons. No, I was referring back to your own claim[1…
> Yes? That was my point all along? That rather than make token efforts to get the incentives in alignment, they’re just stubbornly fighting things that would benefit solar because “sigh, more work [as things currently stand]”.
It's not defensible. I'm stating what exists today and it's uniform for GiantPowerMegaco who wants to bring on megawatts of capacity or the Doe who just wants to light up a few panels on their roof.
My overall points have been a) this is entrenched for a long time and b) the utilities are not the primary ones making the rules. Regular people may be noticing the friction now due to increased touch points via solar, but it's not in response to solar.
They did not calcify overnight. No, that doesn't make it right but it does make it harder to change. So things that are long entrenched but need change usually get the "sigh, more work" response and lots of push back.
> No, I was referring back to your own claim[1] that some of them are for that reason
> ...you’re redefining the point to refer to the former, and then acting like I don’t understand why we’d want people who can follow regulations.
I'm not redefining the point but I should have referenced that I was reacting to the callout of safety but the other aspects play into it just as much.
It's not my intention to imply you don't want people who can follow regulations -- it's more about clarifying that if one has to play in a regulated space you accept the whole pie and all its hangups, literal or figurative. Or not participate until the pie becomes more palatable.
The reason I mention law firms that operate in this space is they are generally ranked for their experience and ability to navigate around these confusing, slow, or non-existent responses from these agencies.
> “Crediting you for your power contribution” is an accounting-level concept, not a hardware-level concept. you don’t need special meters for it beyond their ability to know when the power passed through.
I guess my personal hangup here is on not allowing meters to rollback or "reverse".
The portion of the document I referenced is where the PUC says you cannot use a rollback meter for net metering but must instead use a meters specifically capable of measuring in-flow and out-flow.
They go on to state the reason for measuring out-flow is to determine when the energy was made available to calculate the wholesale market price at that given point in time.