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Despite a sunny climate, Alabama ranks 49th among U.S. states in residential solar installations—lower than Alaska. Advocates say the steep solar fee is part of the reason why.
Despite a sunny climate, Alabama ranks 49th among U.S. states in residential solar installations—lower than Alaska. Advocates say the steep solar fee is part of the reason why.
Alabamans should just install their own solar and not tell the state government about it. It’s not like we have competent governance anymore in the USA, so they probably won’t figure it out.
I think they’re allowed to, but just can’t hook it up to the grid. The Alabama Power fee looks to me like it applies only to generation capacity that is actually connected to the grid, under an interconnection agreement with the utility.
I can imagine a completely separate circuit, not at all connected to the rest of the electrical system, that only powers things that don’t need grid backup: EV chargers, HVAC equipment, other heating or cooling equipment, etc. You’d probably want a decent amount of battery backup, though, to make the best use of that equipment.
Or you can pull circuits out of the main breaker onto a non grid connected breaker panel and run that off of solar/battery. I’d start with the living room and bedrooms since they don’t constantly use electricity, and are easier to tell if the power is out (if the off grid battery is dead)
Campers, which tend to have seperate ac/dc circuts almost alwayd have dc for the ceiling lights, so thats that i was aiming for myself.