Comment by trollbridge

3 days ago

Electrification is a no-go when electricity prices keep going up up up.

No it's not. That's not the equation. The only thing that matters is the final cost, including capex.

Utilities are pooling the wool over the eyes of PUCs and the media is not doing what it needs to show how the utilities are screwing customers because the media is illiterate...

But what China and other places (eg Spain) for this sort of ammonia is to place generation and batteries right at the ammonia site, bypassing the grid for most of their energy, dramatically lowering costs.

The grid costs more than electricity generation, and utilities get guaranteed profit on grid costs, so they try to make the grid as expensive as possible, even as renewables and storage are lowering the cost of generation.

The price of grid electricity is moot when you're powering the process with locally generated green energy.

  • Tell that to struggling family’s electric bills

    • Happily, and in fact it's the only responsible thing to do for somebody that says they care about struggling families!

      Struggling families: off-grid electricity generation for clean fertilizers do not affect your electricity rates. Anybody who tries to get you angry about that is misdirecting your attention from the factors that do affect your electricity prices. If you want lower electricity prices, focus on reigning in your PUC to represent you rather than utility profits.

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