• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Seriously if it was free for me to run a hot tub I would be a more relaxed person…but somehow these negative power prices never seem to trickle down to the consumer 🤔.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      It still costs real money to maintain the infrastructure; so even if the power was always free; you would still have to pay something to cover the maintenance costs.

      • @buzz86us
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        22 months ago

        I’m thinking in the next several years the electric companies will only be maintaining electric lines as generation decentralizes

        • @Resonosity
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          12 months ago

          Lines, network transformers, insulators, surge arresters, reactors, sectionalizers, etc.

          But yes

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Yep, PG&E charges me a connection fee, a maintenance fee, and delivery fee. However the dynamic rates for electricity never go below $0.40 (and go up to $.70 with more price hikes in the works) even at the cheapest times when the state electricity market is at negative rates. Funny how that works.