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oldhippie

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12. I am in Texas and we have our own electric grid ......

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 09:50 PM

Nov 2012

.... so I think we have some advantages. Texas partly de-regulated its electric utility industry some years ago, and so far it has worked pretty well to bring prices down, at least in my area of Central Texas. I am working with my city to see if we can do a commercial scale solar upgrade when we do an upgrade of our waste water treatment plant in a couple years. It looks like we can save the city considerable $$$ on electricity costs.

I've been in my current house about 15 years and I can only remember a half dozen or so power outages, non lasting more thanan hour or so. I guess our companies designed our grid pretty well.

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How Solar-Based Microgrids Could Bring Power to Millions [View all] OKIsItJustMe Nov 2012 OP

Our power company put up solar panels throughout our neighborhood. lalalu Nov 2012 #1

“I thought those darn things would help generate back up power.” OKIsItJustMe Nov 2012 #2

In other words lalalu Nov 2012 #3

Andrew Cuomo laid things out nicely OKIsItJustMe Nov 2012 #4

I will give him credit. lalalu Nov 2012 #5

He also has not minced words regarding climate change OKIsItJustMe Nov 2012 #6

True lalalu Nov 2012 #7

You can make the same case against cheapskate homeowners ...... oldhippie Nov 2012 #8

Maybe we homeowners wouldn't be such lalalu Nov 2012 #9

Property taxes pay for the services citizens demand oldhippie Nov 2012 #10

In New Jersey we pay a lot. lalalu Nov 2012 #11

I am in Texas and we have our own electric grid ...... oldhippie Nov 2012 #12

any solar-neighborhood backup system, would be swamped by demand mrf901 Nov 2012 #13

And *that* is a critical point ... Nihil Nov 2012 #14