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by cameldrv 790 days ago
Joke's on them. Storage is getting very cheap now. At the prices PG&E is charging, it's now cost effective to buy batteries and store your solar power. Some of this requires a certain amount of DIY, but if PG&E restructures rates to go after these people, many of them will simply oversize their system, disconnect from the grid entirely and just have a generator for deep emergency backup.