• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Because the business model is designed around everyone paying the utility for consumption of energy when the should be paying for the availability of a service.

    When 50% of the people no longer pay, it’s not like the utility can deal with that. They still have poles to maintain and generation plants sized for peak load.

    To fix this we would need to pay a baseline service fee for the size of the panel. A home might have a 200 amp panel while a laundromat might have something much larger.

    Then, some nerds would need to figure out how to charge for consumption.

    But like I said, it’s not designed like this today. It’s designed around consumption only.