99 Percent Invisible - Reversing the Grid

Listen to the podcast and then do one of the following:

Answer the following questions and submit them to your ePortfolio:

1. In the early days of the electrical grid, how did companies estimate how much electricity each customer was using?

2. What is "net metering"? Why was this not considered in the early days of the electrical grid?

3. What aspect of solar technology allowed net metering to become more prevalent?

4. What is time-of-use pricing and how does it help the electrical grid?

5. Why do you believe that solar power use is limited in Calgary? If you were a city councillor or provincial MLA what could you do to increase the number of people putting electricity back into the grid.

City of Calgary - Solar Potential Map