It will be interesting to see how this plays out at the State level. One has California and Hawaii, it will be interesting to watch what “programs” are put in place with all of the cacophony of rules, regulations, mandates and NEM battles going on across the U.S. right now. Then compare a State like Ohio and Georgia to see what these States “determine” to be germane as mandates and energy programs. Folks have had some extensive tax advantages for putting in solar PV and now smart energy storage as an additional (energy system) appliance to their homes since 2006 with the introduction of the Federal ITC.

As a majority, most folks across the U.S. would agree some kind of “air conditioning” is high on the list of appliances that make their lives better, even though A/C is fairly costly and needs to be attended to and possibly replaced every 10 to 20 years of use. There is a paradigm blindness foisted on the public by energy companies and electric utilities who have inserted themselves into the daily cost of energy used in people’s daily lives.