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Originally Posted by Two Bills
If everyone reduced their consumption, the power companies would probably raise prices to cove lost profits!  |
Well, yeah, and in Florida FPL is fighting home solar. And for a good reason, they paid a lot of money to build out the infrastructure to get the power from their plant to your (everyones) home. The business model calls for amortizing that over a long period of consumption. If people reduce their usage and/or switch to solar then the power company is stuck trying to pay off the huge bill they incurred putting all those wires up.
However, they are a sanctioned monopoly, so we do get some say in how they operate, and we need to exercise that say by voting for forward people that are not in the power companies pockets. I know that is a pipe dream, but I can always hope.
The BEST electrical solution is distributed generation (houses with solar wherever possible) and the "power company" eventually being phased out and all those power lines removed and recycled.