I'd rather give excess power to my neighbors for free or just waste it on a giant spinning pinwheel than "sell" it back to the power company. No mention of local battery storage by the reporter or the "reported/reportee".
Local battery storage is nice in a power outage, but right now it isn't remotely competitive with net metering.
I pay US$7.94 a month to my utility to "store" megawatt-hours of electricity over the course of a year. Brand-name home battery storage is still well over $500 per kilowatt-hour installed.
So yeah, I'll engage in shameless commerce with the evil corporate utility if they'll loan me a $2.5-million-dollar "battery" for less than 8 bucks a month.
If your power bill is not expensive enough for your taste learn to weld. Make sure you go gas-less, plasma and carbon arc for cutting, stick and flux core for welding. If that's still not enough start casting things. These hobbies also have the side effect of being great for one-upping your coworkers who do 3d printing.
I pay US$7.94 a month to my utility to "store" megawatt-hours of electricity over the course of a year. Brand-name home battery storage is still well over $500 per kilowatt-hour installed.
So yeah, I'll engage in shameless commerce with the evil corporate utility if they'll loan me a $2.5-million-dollar "battery" for less than 8 bucks a month.