Comment by Arainach
11 hours ago
Solar is profitable to install at both industrial and home scale in most areas. You're moving the goalposts.
11 hours ago
Solar is profitable to install at both industrial and home scale in most areas. You're moving the goalposts.
It would be even better if it had ROI in 2 years instead of 10 for northern installs.
It's a lot more complicated than that -- Solar is great for discretionary, opportunistic, and time-shiftable additive demand, but not for replacing all-day baseline load. Using solar to dip into baseline demand sometimes is catastrophic, because the "profit" is exploiting its failure to provide consistent, reliable power but charging "default" prices that have an implicy assumption that power is consistent and reliable.