In certain expensive markets, like Hawaii and Southern California and in certain sunny ones, like Arizona and, recently, New Mexico, homemade solar power now costs about the same or even slightly less than grid-made power. Why, then, pay a utility company for something you can make for yourself? No good reason at all. Quite suddenly, the utilities aren’t earning enough money to perform basic upkeep on the grid, though all of their customers are still using it. Solar-panel owners feed power into the grid during the day, but they draw electricity exclusively from the grid in the evening and at
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