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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah that's been an anticipated problem, since home solar is essentially a lost customer for the utility, but infrastructure maintenance costs don't change. Honestly the power grid shouldn't be a commercial enterprise, even if it's under shit tons of regulation. It's so absurdly critical to society we should have nationalized the power companies a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah... Right now California residents are paying massively inflated rates because the utility board decided that PG&E, a company that is literally a convicted killer, can pass the cost of the fines on to customers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, if it’s a problem that our power grid is having distributed green energy connected all over the place, we need to make the damn utilities change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Kind of like our railroads? Or the internet?