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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Simplified scenario.

Here are the two options we are talking about:

  1. Fixed rate. Each household in this neighborhood pays a fixed, $200 “connection fee” to cover these costs.

  2. Consumption-based. Each of the 20 low-use household pays $50 ($1000 total, for the 1 transformer they share) and each high-use household pays $500 ($5000 total, for the 5 transformers they share).

Fixed fees only make sense for covering administrative costs, which scale per user. Grid maintenance costs scale based (primarily) on total consumption. Fixing maintenance fees forces low-use households to subsidize high-use households.

I feel like I’m in the fucking twilight zone here. The community does not seem to comprehend what they are demanding.

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