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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.analog
Subject: Re: power meters
Message-ID: <677@mako.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 12:15:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 12:15:04 1985
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Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
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Summary: 

In article <267@rtech.ARPA> jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) writes:
>Domestic electricity meters *do* measure true energy.  They will even run
>backwards if there is a net outflow of energy.

It's a well-known fact in the alternative power community that you can hook
your windplant/hydroplant/whatever to the load side of your power meter, spin
it backwards, and sell the utility energy.  (Saves capital equipment costs for
the storage subsystem!)  Recent court decisions have strengthened the right of
small power generators to force-sell to the utilities, but the generator is
required to notify the utility, and the utility may install a dual meter
system, one for retail rate (consumer-used power) and one for wholesale rate
(consumer-produced power).
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