I suppose it all depends on how they pay for the power you create. The way I understand it here is they will pay for power you return to the grid at wholesale, requiring a special meter but if you are just creating it and using it all yourself the meter just does not see that power at all. That was back in the analog meter days.
If the rumor that putting it in upside down would make it go backward, it might have actually been crediting you at retail tho since net power would be going out.
I could see why they might want to stop that.
The new "smart" meter we have now may work differently.
It may be able to track back flow separately right now.
We do get some cool statistics tho.
I used between 1.8mwh to 2.4mwh each month this year
My hourly usage gets down around 1kwh in the middle of the night but by the time the sun is up, I am up over 3kwh.
I doubt I will ever be able to afford a system that would offset my lowest spot usage.
