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Is anyone discussing _reliability_? as in Google/Apple/etc are making this move not just "to be green" but to ensure that they do have power without being subje
by ctdonath 10y ago
Is anyone discussing _reliability_? as in Google/Apple/etc are making this move not just "to be green" but to ensure that they do have power without being subjected to the whims & issues of providers when they're just one of many customers? When you have literally hundreds of millions (billions?) of customers, you want to ensure your own resources are absolutely reliable (within your, not someone else's, requirements).
It's like me wanting to put solar panels on my roof: I'm not so much interested in cost savings, but want to ensure a massive grid failure doesn't take my household with it.
- LightskinKanye 10y agoYou do realize in the event of a grid failure your solar panels don't work? You can either be grid tied or off grid.
- acchow 10y agoDoesn't a battery give you some leeway to swap freely between buying/selling electricity off the grid and running-off-grid-from-battery?
- LightskinKanye 10y agoYes it acts as a sort of firewall between the two systems. But at that cost you may as well just have 2 systems. One off grid and one grid-tied given you have the space.
- peter303 10y agoThey arent running directly on renewables, but paying others to use as much renewables as they would use