Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year’s midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who’s footing the bill to power Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
Electricity costs were a key issue in this week’s elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, where Democrats ousted two Republican incumbents for seats on the state’s utility regulatory commission.
That’s insane. In the UK most solar installs are grid tied and it’s standard practice to get paid by the utility company for back-feeding since they can reduce their natural gas consumption.
I pay £0.26 ($0.34) per kWh imported and received £0.10 ($0.13) for export. Some utility tariffs are dynamic with demand so if you have a battery system you can do arbitrage with import/export