[RE-wrenches] Net Metering Expert?

[cwarfel at entech-engineering.com]

If you want to avoid my rant, just go to the bolded, italicized,
underline question below. Thank you, Chris 

We are in a situation with our island cooperative, where we have a
former Vermont Electric Coop person as our president. He has been for 8
years I believe.  In my opinion based upon his conduct and filings, he
is a enormous control freak, and has instituted a two meter policy for
buying ALL solar generation at Avoided Cost and charging the site at
Tariff. No electricity from solar is used in the home accounting wise.
We used to have traditional net metering. 

Now, interconnection costs are very high, dangerous, and a waste of
money.  The effect is that only wealthy people are installing systems. 
The returns based upon this metering setup has increased the payback by
a factor of more than 2. No attempt at showing ways to make this more
reasonable have worked. He actually told me he didn't need my help, and
then 6 months later declared it was I was a for profit company and he
could not take advice from a for profit company. Hence my negative
opinion of this person as that is totally ridiculous.  

Ok, now to the question.  He publically claimed in a monthly meeting
that he was a Net Metering Expert.  I started laughing as being in thie
type of work for 40 years, I have never heard of such a thing.  He has
no engineering degree, no certifications, he just landed in a job where
the Board majority has even less experience.  So, he usually gets his
way. 

_Have any of you ever heard of a Net Metering certification?_ 

How ironic that the Net Metering expert has instituted Avoided Cost
Metering. Thanks for any feedback. We are now recording and streaming
the meetings, so we are exposing this situation to the public.  

Chris
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