Recently in Kentucky, a legislature (pushed by the electric companies) proposed a new bill eliminating net-metering (as most of us know it). It would have forced all new solar installs to use what energy they produce at the time of production. What was sent back into the grid would have been purchased by the electric companies at an extremely reduced rate of 2-3 cents per kWh and would have been sold back to you at 10 cents per kWh. Hmmm, what would this have done for battery storage? People like myself, were exempt for I believe it was 23 years that had already done solar and current net metering rules stayed the same. It also introduced all kinds of tiered structures and allowed the electric companies to charge (whatever they felt was necessary) to pay our fair share (fair share coming from the electric companies point of view because people who have solar obviously sponge off the people who don't). It was a real hack job and just showed their real intentions.
I actually got a flyer and an email from my electric company asking me to support it. Luckily, it prompted a lot of discussion and out-rage and was left in committee to die.
