No. The restriction is on what you install.
No. The restriction is on what you install.
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The utility companies don’t want you to not rely on their monopoly?
Shocking.
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If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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Welcome to canada
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If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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That's how they regulate it, by determining how big of a system they allow you to install.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As to "how", the utilities have a monopoly on their grid and what gets attached to it, as they issue the permits for it. You are entirely at the whim of the utility, in recent years they dropped the max from 110% of usage to 105% and could drop it further if they wanted.
it’s always been that way. If you’re connected to their grid their regulations only allow the system to be sized to your yearly usage (give or take)This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If it’s a fully off grid system though you can go larger but you’d need battery backups to last as well
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Well you'd know.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Probably a bit of that. But they don't want you screwing up their base power load forcing them to cycle down during the day.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Residential micro generation is nothing. Industrial/commercial wind and solar are what’s fucking the grid (and pricing) right now.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft
My understanding of the residential limit is basically that the transformers used in our residential areas aren't always bidirectional so there's some concern if too much power was produced in one area. With the caps in place any excess power you produced is just used by your neighbours anyways. If it got to the point where every single person in an area had panels then there might be issues during the summer of too much production and require Enmax to upgrade their infrastructure. So they probably want to pace that from happening.
Sure, I mean the proverbial "You", as in everybody. With enough adoption of residential solar, they will run into these issues.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He definitely saw a tik tok on thisThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Well, AUC is the one laying down the law.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://media.www.auc.ab.ca/prd-wp-u...nGuideline.pdf
Now is the law influenced by the grid operators? Up for debate.
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteFollowing up on this conversation from earlier this year. Cbc does an almost decent job of explaining the system.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7304874
Rules discourage Canadians from generating more solar power than they use
Rooftop solar poses both an opportunity and a challenge for utilities
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