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these days). Other than that, its fill out a simple onepage form on the BC Hydro grid-tie website, email a
copy of the electrical inspectors approval form, and
voila! Youre hooked up!
The Smart Meter then tracks both the power you
take out of the grid, and also how much you feed in.
Both numbers appear on your Hydro bill, and you pay
only for the difference, reducing or eliminating your
power bill while feeding your home or business with
lovely, clean solar electricity.
At the end of a billing year, if you put more
electricity into the grid than you took out (as I very
happily did) you get a credit or cheque from BC
Quick Fact:
CHINA LOOKS TO TIDAL POWER BIG TIME: The Wall Street Journal reports that China is
looking at marine renewables in a big and very serious way. With a long coastline and an on-going
air pollution crisis, it makes sense. A proposed $30 billion tidal plant would supply as much juice as
2.5 large nuclear reactors.