Flipx99
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In class, it became in issue when a couple who went solar tried to sell the home. There was a code issue. The issue could very local specific, or I was getting second-rate, second hand anectdotal information. But in that instance, the house was condemed for disconnecting to the grid.I don't know where you're getting this info from, but that's not true generally. There are plenty of people that have disconnected entirely from the grid. That's actually a less legally-sticky matter than going grid-intertie, because you don't have to show the co-op that your inverter won't backfeed the grid during an outage, have to run a seperate meter if they used ratcheting meters that won't spin backwards, etc...
Do you know anything about the requirement that electric companies must purchase generated power? When I was an engineering student, they told of this company that pumped water up a mountain at night, and let it fall down a turbine during the day and made money off the spread. Dunno how true it is...
