2008 Senate Bill 1246 (Establish electricity “net metering” regulations )

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Introduced by Sen. Bruce Patterson (R) on March 27, 2008, to allow and establish regulations for “net metering” by public electric utilities. “Net metering” applies to a customer who both generates some electricity which is fed back into the power grid, and also buys some power from the utility. The customer would be billed for the amount of electricity that is purchased, minus the amount that is sold back. The bill allows for the interconnection of “renewable” energy customer generators capable of producing up to 550 kilowatts.
- Referred to the Senate Energy Policy & Public Utilities Committee on March 27, 2008.

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1) Re: 2008 Senate Bill 1246 (Establish electricity “net metering” regulations ) [by steversmith on April 10, 2009]

So the bill passed then? I just got a house "off grid' outside of Leland. I would like to connect it to the grid and do the net metering thing. Is the utility (which passes right by the house) legislated to do that? I know I will have to pay for the hook-up and necessary wiring, but it sounds like they are legistlated to have the process in place for me to sign up for net-metering, correct?

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2) Re: Who will set our price? [by uber-liberal on March 1, 2009]

mississippi state university us doing a 'test house' with pv power.

their array is movable, and is 15 x 22 feet. it provides 4kw. on bright mississippi days, and much less than that on overcast days, and nearly nothing at night. even with the size of those panels, a modest array costing only $32,000 dollars, it only provides half to eighty percent of the power for the house.

while that is quite good, it's not nearly good enough to totally replace grid power, and still not enough to sell power back to the utility company. that's not counting the batteries necessary to store power for low light times. no, i don't see pv power as ready yet to become the cost efficient saviour of the planet from the bugbear of fossil fuel consumption.

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3) Re: Who will set our price? [by OTRDriver on March 1, 2009]

Here are some sites you might want to study up on. also if you type in "size home for PV power" your browser should list an aray of different sites to study. Wind power generation for homes might also be a viable source here in Michigan becasue of our prevaling winds off the lakes.

http://www.kyocerasolar.com/products/pv_calculator.html

http://www.yoursolarpowerhome.com/index.html

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/pv_physics.html

Hope this helps you out good luck with your project.

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