It’s simple to become bogged down regarding your energy cost. The bill comes due every month like clockwork, and there isn’t much you can do about it other than pay it and waiting for the next one.

What’s the sense in worrying about that? If you pay attention over time, you could notice that the price of your power has been progressively creeping up. You continually pay whatever the utility asks you because the electricity must remain on. Everything eventually gets so ingrained that you stop questioning the practice altogether. 

What if there were a way to stop the cycle, though? Imagine if you could set a deadline for paying your energy bill. Imagine being able to produce your own clean, sustainable energy without the need for an ongoing subscription service.

The days of paying for electricity are over with a solar system and that energy bill? It all of a sudden has a deadline. 

Demystifying the present utility-provided electricity paradigm can help us better understand the actual cost of complacency. In the past, when you needed power, you had to pay the utility for the energy you used to be connected to the grid.

That looks like a relatively simple paradigm to people who haven’t switched to solar power, and it is. When you begin consuming electricity, you must pay the utility for it and continue doing that dance endlessly. 

The problem is that the sole constant in that relationship is that you will always pay money. On the utility side, the cost of power has undoubtedly changed. Even if the price per watt has more than quadrupled over the past 10 years, there are still other issues to be concerned about. PG&E announced its intention to raise power rates by 8 percent in January and almost 9 percent in March this year.

They will implement subsequent rate hikes throughout the coming months and years. In the upcoming years, users may experience rate rises of at least another 12%—that’s just the prediction! 

The reality is that the aging grid will be under increasing stress as we go towards a series of increasingly hot summers. Growing worldwide demand and increasing global instability will result in rising fossil fuel prices, which will also raise the cost of energy.

You will continue to have the utility set your costs and increase your expenses as long as you rely on the grid for your energy. The system might have worked in the past, but it does not represent our needs and circumstances now.

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