— Our first summer with solar panels, half an hour of air conditioning cost my family $136. That wasn’t the month’s electricity. It wasn’t taxes or fees. It was one line on our bill called a demand charge. Our utility in Phoenix bills solar homes partly on their single worst half hour of grid use…
Josh Marshall
About Josh Marshall
Josh has been a professional software engineer since 2014, working everywhere from four-person startups to Fortune 100 companies. He builds Grid Getter, a Tesla Powerwall automation suite, and runs Marshland Software, where he’s the tech guy for businesses too small to have one. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and two young kids.