When last we checked in with legacy Florida utilities, they were busy using entirely fake consumer groups to push a law that professed to help the solar industry while actually undermining it.
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In Florida, the average household spends $1,900 a year on power, 40% higher than the national average. Yet incentives or other measures designed to spur solar power adoption are either absent or illegal, in large part thanks to utility lobbying.
Generators connected directly to house power, if installed correctly, will have an auto-switch that keeps it from interfering with (or being fried by) outside current. Same on my motorhome. If the generator is running and for some unexplained dumb reason I plug into a power source, the generator shuts down.
So I guess if your house is connected solar, it might work the same way?
Correct. The real danger comes from portable gas generators. After Hugo, friends who got power back before us let us borrow their gennie- complete with the "special" cord with grounded, polarized male plugs on each end. Plug it into the gennie and into an outlet in the garage. Oh, and turn off the main breaker.
People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range.
I used to care, but, things have changed.
I'm thinking enforcement would *increase* - by insurance companies looking for a pretext to void policies. There's never been any need to show that the unauthorized electrical work used to void a claim had anything whatsoever to do with causing the claim.
I have long understood that the insurance company's job isn't to pay claims, but to avoid paying claims. Having said that, however, my personal experience with insurance carriers over the years has been generally positive. My healthcare carriers for twenty years or so have been Aetna and Cigna, and we've had no problems at all despite Lady O having a serious (and expensive) illness a few years back. I've had property claims for trees falling on the house in Florida as well as in NC before we lived here and both were paid to my satisfaction. GEICO has paid 2-3 auto claims over the years without issue. No runaround, no requirement for used parts, just take the car to a shop and give them my policy number and that's it. I've had a couple of claims for Cornerstone coverage on the motorhome and they were covered again without issue.
So maybe I'm lucky, maybe my claims (except for Lady O's medical) weren't big enough to get caught in their deny-at-all-costs software, maybe my carriers are better than some others...I don't know.
I do know what made a big difference in the medical insurance coverage overall, though. When employers started self-funded plans and wrote in their own plan designs, coverage, and administrative rules, leaving the carriers as administrative agents, the carriers started offering plans that were comparable. They started doing better on pre-ex, on exclusions, on preventive coverage, and on claims review, etc.
I can see that. Companies have generally been upping employee contribution and cutting benefits now for years. Smoke and mirrors, whack-a-mole, three thimbles, and sometimes baldfaced lying. But still, most plans will cover a lot of preventive procedures, offer physician office visits with a co-pay (instead of a deductible), and have a prescription plan. Before the employers got into plan design and HMO's came along, a typical "major medical" plan really did have 80-20 cost sharing after a stiff deductible, covered no preventive, and had a fixed day rate for hospital stays. Back then, it was also "one size fits none" and there was no plan choice. Also no plan continuation, such as COBRA.
" If you think that Roy Moore belongs in the Senate, then you are a half-bright goober whose understanding of American government and basic civics probably stops at the left side of your AM radio dial. "
Hey, that's my family he's talking about.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
