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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeS" data-source="post: 38619" data-attributes="member: 250">TrojanHussar, when you export electricity to the grid, does the power company use that to reduce your bill or do they pay you for it?I like to think of the grid as a huge battery that temporarily stores the energy I've given it; in my case, the power company uses what I export to it simply to reduce my bill at the same rate, until I get energy-positive (i.e., over the course of the year I've generated more than I took), which is a separate  discussion...An alternative for you could be to have a solar-charged battery buffer feeding an inverter feeding a programmable EVSE feeding your car so you could keep the power going to the car constant at some low level. Need to do the math to see if it makes sense.</blockquote>