With regard to the April 22 letter to the editor “Simple, fair solution exists for solar power and net metering”:
I’m not intimately familiar with power grids, but the writer’s proposed “solution” does not seem equitable in the least. Both the supplier and the end user of the solar electricity would be paying a delivery charge.
If my understanding is correct, the solar electricity supplied to the grid does not travel someplace to be stored until it’s needed. Rather, it is used right away. So there should be no delivery charge charged to the solar supplier. In the same vein, I doubt Central Maine Power and Emera Maine are charged delivery fees for the power they supply to the grid.
A more appropriate charge, if any, to the solar supplier would be for the additional accounting service, provided by the supplier, to monitor the solar power being supplied to the grid.
Ed Paré
Wells
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