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On Apr 10, 4:16*pm, wrote:
On Apr 10, 3:29*pm, JIMMIE wrote:

On Apr 10, 11:19*am, wrote: $0.80/ Kwh even
if you use it yourself.


I don't understand how you can sell the power if you use it
yourself? * Here in the US, what you use yourself is free and the
excess is sold back to the system. *


*People get the wrong idea that you can sell ALL of the excess you can
generate back to the PoCo. This isnt true. The PoCo doesnt have to and
will not pay you for more than you have used so the best you can do is
break even less the monthly connection charges and other fees they can
dream up.


That is news to me. *You have any reference that supports this? * I've
always heard that whatever you don't use goes back to the grid and you
do get paid for it. *Why would the power company pay me for the power
I have used? * It sounds ass backwards.

I would be paying for the first $40 worth whether I use it
or not.


Jimmie


Best reference is the local poco or whomever you buy your electricity
from. It varies from state to state. Often sales back to the poco is
at a wholesale rate of 1 to 3 cents per Kwh. When you do this you can
sell them as much as you want but you have to install a 'net meter'
that computes your usage from and return to the grid. Otherwise if
you use a plain old meter which will run backwards you can be limited
to the amount that you took out of the grid. For a residential
customer guess which way is best.

Jimmie

Jimmie