Comment by triceratops
4 months ago
In most places in the developed world utility-scale solar is much cheaper to build than rooftop solar. And there's value in having a stable grid to fall back on. I think the demand destruction story is overrated.
4 months ago
In most places in the developed world utility-scale solar is much cheaper to build than rooftop solar. And there's value in having a stable grid to fall back on. I think the demand destruction story is overrated.
Utility-scale solar needs land and has to deal with line losses. Rooftop solar does not have to deal with either.
Utility scale is 2x cheaper despite all that.
> Utility scale is 2x cheaper despite all that.
I think you mean cheaper for the utility. It is certainly not cheaper for me, the homeowner.
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Not necessarily - you have to pay for that infrastructure between the plant and your home.
Balcony solar is even cheaper to build than utility-scale solar.
It's limited to 800W in Germany and 1200W in Utah. It isn't about to replace utility-scale generation anytime soon.
Those limits are just arbitrary regulations. It's easy to install 10x that on a residential roof.
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Balcony solar can still satisfy a significant portion of a household's demand.
That only applies if you connect it to the grid in each of those places, I believe.
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