I dont mind paying for information technology for them to send me price signals. My understanding of the impact of rooftop solar is it reduces load at the local substation. In reality my solar generation just goes to my neighbors who share the same transformer. I think bidirectional current travel is a wholesale problem created by distant solar farms.
As mentioned above rooftop solar will likely be fairly well distributed eliminating the need for more transmission. I recall some recent CPUC cases where they denied several IOU requests for more distribution or transmission. Maybe there is something I am missing in my simplistic view of the future?
I probably need to understand that issue better. I thought the point of Rule 21 was to give the grid more resilience? If adding megaWatt battery banks to substations or retired generating stations is what you mean by frequency/voltage support, I dont have a problem paying for that either.
As peak generation increases (solar peaks at noon) they will need higher current transmission lines.
As DER's with tight trip tolerances (i.e. non-Rule 21) proliferate they will need more frequency/voltage support to prevent cascading failures due to loss of generation.
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