u/jimbillyjoebob

I have a 9.6ish kW solar system. It is monthly net metering wth no carryover, so any excess I produce only pays me between $0.01 and $0.035 per kWh. Since the system was installed, I have produced excess every month, but most months it’s not even enough to cover the connection and other fees, but it’s still almost free so that’s good.

If I were to get a battery, as far as I can tell it would only mean that instead of trading daytime electricity for nighttime electricity with the utility, I would be doing it with the battery. Since the utility does it for free, what benefit does a battery provide? Are there utilities that don’t even offer net metering within the monthly billing cycle?

I have a Seagate Barracuda HD that was in one of our computers and was corrupted. I have it connected to Fideco HDD reader and have managed to recover most of what I needed using Fastcopy that was able to leave out the damaged files. There is one folder with older pics left that I want, but Fastcopy says "the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error" without any files moving over. We do have another desktop that I could plug it in as a second hard drive if that will help. Any suggestsions are welcome.