Cost of Electricity

[Jim Blackwood]

Sun would not be free if they could figure out a way to tax it.

Jim

[Lin]

I suppose that with utility companies charging fees to let you use solar, they are already starting to tax sunlight.

[windtrader]

I suppose that with utility companies charging fees to let you use solar, they are already starting to tax sunlight.

If you are off-gird in that you store your captured energy, then the utility company has no claws, i believe. Where they do charge, rather than tax, is to use the utility infrastructure for transmission and distribution if you are grid-tied. I am no fan of utilities but to be there is a cost to maintain everything beyond your own service main. rate can be debated all day