Unbelievable! My electric company raising rates 45% !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[capierrottie2]

I love deregulation in my state

I cant afford to buy solar panels and I don't have the knowledge or money to have them installed, so I fought back. My electric bill kept rising too so I picking an electric supplier that supplies 100% wind energy and they actually pay me. It is definitely putting a dent in my electric bill. No investment or risk either. I love it.
North American Power

[Michelinho]

Not as good as he was told.

Hi all,

My son-in-law had a system, subsidized in part by the N.J. State, installed on his house's roof 2 years ago ($36,000.00) and he was told he would actually gets it paid back in 5 to 6 years with what he sells the Utility Company...

Fat chance. After a year, the State unilaterally changed the contract and downgraded the buy-back, so now he will have his system paid back in 10 to 12 years. It is still not a bad option but what keeps them from modifying the contract again next year to next to nothing for the electricity they buy.

We are planning to legally mod his system so he can use the electricity produce to charge a big battery bank and use his feed to power the house day and night.

He now have a small battery bank, a windmill, six 235W solar panels, 2 charge controllers and a couple of inverters that he uses to supply all his basement's need. The rest of the house will come when he has the roof system mod by the contractor that installed his system to do what he wants it to do, fill his need then sell the rest... Has to be legal.

Be extra careful before having an expensive setup installed on your house and read the fine prints. Even then you are not guaranteed what ever kickback they say you will get.

Take care all,

Michel

[mbrownn]

At these rates an old diesel generator being run off used cooking oil is viable.

No need to crack the oil if it runs continuously. Ok its not free energy but its better than nuclear plants. You will need two filters on the cooking oil, the first being like a fine strainer and the second is basically a bathroom tissue roll. the bathroom tissue removes contaminants by adsorption and water by absorption. The filter technology is explained here Welcome To KleenOil Filtration I used to sell these and they are very good, essentially all it is is a tightly wound bathroom tissue.

Pipe the filtered oil around the exhaust and engine to heat it and it will run fine. The temperature needs to be above 80'c or the oil is too thick.

You will need a separate diesel tank for starting and stopping as you don't want the cooking oil in cold injectors. The warm up will have to be on diesel and you will have to run it of diesel a few minutes before shutdown.

Power will be down by about 20% when compared to diesel.

I believe it may be possible to run a diesel off old engine oil too.