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Last year, at the conclusion of a public talk I gave in Dover about my work, a member of the audience raised her hand and asked me the secret of my success as Consumer Advocate.
Dodging the question of just how successful I ve truly been as the statutory representative of New Hampshire s residential utility ratepayers, I had a ready answer: Avoid all discussion of net metering.
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Everyone laughed.
Conceptually, net metering is rather ingenious and, perhaps, even cute. Put some solar panels on your roof, wire them up so they re connected to your house s electric system and see if, at times when you re producing more power than you re using, the meter spins backwards.