Your bill is based on how much your energy company needs to make in profits. This will not change no matter what kind of technology you use.
Last year we spent 15,000 USD making improvements to our house. Making it more energy efficient. We hired professional high quality companies to come in and do the work and do the physical testing. I was able to independently verify that we knocked 25% off our usage. In other words after our improvements we were using 25% less power in our daily lives than before. Our local power company decided that because the local government wouldn't let them raise their rates and tried to force them to give discounts to people who did what we did and made our energy usage more efficient, the energy company added "delivery fee" to the bill. It was 15% more than our old bills. Instead of getting a 25% discount from our old bills, we got an increase of 15%. This was on top of the money we spent on our house. Plus apparently after our modifications our property is now worth more and are property taxes are even higher than before.
With this new "delivery fee" the energy company can slide your bill around to where ever they want the final dollar amount to be.
I was all for "greening" up my home but I have paid a steep premium for it.
Discussion on:
Message 4 of 1
The best of ZDNet, delivered
ZDNet Newsletters
Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox
