For the record, my comment about customers getting screwed wasn't aimed at any type of rate policy. It was aimed at the technical aspect of the metering requirements that we've seen here for DC coupled systems, and whether and how they are capable of measuring PV production accurately. Maybe they are able to do it right and I'm just not thinking it through correctly, but it seems to the three meter setup potentially misses PV production.**
I
do that all the extra equipment required constitutes its own kind of overkill that is a mark against such policies, aside from more general fairness questions about who should pay for what.
**EDIT: Okay, I took some time to think it through and now I realize that the three meter setup can count PV production accurately. It's just counterintuitive how it would do so.
- The standby loads meter reading would actually be counted positively as
PV production, not consumption. (That's the counterintuitive part.)
- Any standby loads consumption that is actually drawn from the grid will be counted negatively by the PV meter
- The two numbers will offset resulting in zero added to the PV production total.
- In effect, the standby loads meter is the new PV production meter, and the in-between 'PV meter' is a moderator that either adds PV production or consumption, depending on whether its count ends up positive or negative, respectively.
Clear as mud?