Running Your Electric Meter Backwards

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 22, 2007 @07:23PM from the power-to-the-peeps dept.

kog777 writes to note a story in International Business Times about "net metering," or generating your own power without disconnecting from the grid. Forty states have laws allowing individuals to do this, and many of them offer subsidies and tax breaks for people who do. From the article: "When the sun shines bright on their home in New York's Hudson Valley, John and Anna Bagnall live out a homeowner's fantasy. Their electricity meter runs backward. Solar panels on their barn roof can often provide enough for all their electricity needs. Sometimes — and this is the best part — their solar setup actually pushes power back into the system."

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Re:Price issues by Al_Maverick · 2007-01-23 00:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I wish I had mod points!! +1 Ironic LOL!!!!
This is bullshit by Shiptar · 2007-01-23 01:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They don't let you generate power like that. If your meter runs backwards they come change it so it stops doing that. If these people aren't full of shit, it's only a matter of time before NatGrid comes and fixes them real good.