Yeah this is deeply ignorant of how electrical systems work. You are over producing expensive electricity at peak and taking on cheaper electricity at trough. So if you are charged the same price for both you are getting a subsidy at everyone else’s expense for no efficiency gain.
I have been looking into going solar this summer and have been frustrated by a 2017 Indiana law that makes it financially unteneble (for me, but a boondoggle for electric companies)
So I wrote something about it
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The problem with going solar in Indiana • Indiana Capital Chronicle
A 2017 Indiana state law makes installing solar financially difficult for individual homeowners but quite profitable for electric companies.