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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
I actually asked about batteries, which they do supply, but it adds a huge amount of $$$ to the system. The sales guy who came over for our initial estimate told us to wait a few years for the costs to drop before even thinking about it. Right now, with our typical grid-tie system if the power goes out from our utility it will go out in our own home as well. This is actually a safety precaution to keep solar panels from backfeeding into the grid while electric company employees are working on the lines.
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So your solar panels do "sell" extra energy back to the utility? Is this "back feed" inhibitor just in place when the grid power is out?
There's a federal law somewhere that states that public utilities must "buy" any extra energy produced by homeowners. I don't know about all of the possible loop holes and such, however. My cousins have a few of these on their property, though they collect a fee, they don't own the power generated:
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