Grid tied solar, at least the businesses that promote it for corporate profits are so woke. And they really want your business, installing now-relatively inexpensive solar panels on your roof in a few hours, paying an electrician then charging you for decades to finance the panels. Liberals really don’t want to admit it – but a lot of these solar companies are scams. And when they’re not, they are ripping off other ratepayers by subsidizing other, often wealthier,people’s solar.

Truth is the solar subsidies were needed at first, as the technology was immature. Grid tied solar makes a lot of sense, even for the suburbanite homeowner, but it should not be subsidized. Instead, solar systems should have battery storage and work with the grid to support and enhance everybody’s energy reliability while reducing homeowners electricity costs. Homeowners with grid tied solar should avoid sending power to grid whenever possible, storing it for their own use in batteries, and only tapping the grid when there is insufficient battery storage. That’s really what is best for the grid and the environment.

Grid-tied solar doesn’t have to be a drag on other consumers, while still being a way for homeowners to get low-cost, environmentally friendly-energy into their homes. Battery storage can ensure the home is a little reliant on the grid as possible, and if they lack insufficient power, tapping the grid only at times when there isn’t enough power remaining in the batteries. It can also tap into the grid to top of batteries in times when there is excessive grid capacity, such as at night when electricity rates are low.

Now if I was interested in a suburban house, whettther it be one that smells like cow shit or otherwise, maybe I would be more interested in Grid-tied solar. But I really want to do that fully off-grid thing when I buy my own land, so I never have a pay a utility bill, and are in full control of my system. So I don’t have to live somewhere next to major road, near neighbors that would complain or otherwise annoy myself. Of course the greenie advertisers don’t understand such things, and instead will fill my social media feeds with advertising for grid-tied solar finacing scams.