The “rich people who can afford accountants” in this case are going to be middle income families, and I’m not even talking about household income of more than 100k. Only the bottom 30% will see savings, which you’ll realize is not a big threshold.
Another problem I see is that by reducing the per-unit costs and shifting it back to a flat grid connection fee, they are reducing the incentive to save energy. Is this really going to bring the future we want?
I honestly think it is a mistake to allow grandfathered NEM rate structures to continue, if these other wacky plans are really attempting to compensate for that imbalance.
Maybe we need better than the NEM 3 proposal, to actually charge based on your grid connection size and usage. Something based on peak and actual power transfers as they reflect proportionate reliance on the grid infrastructure.That would be in addition to any actual energy consumption which I think should also follow the NEM 3 plan with retail rates for consumption and wholesale rates for production that vary by time of delivery.
