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I like the idea of a solar roof, but the incentives just don’t work out where I live. We have lots of sun, so I could plausibly produce quite a bit of excess po
by monochromatic 9y ago
I like the idea of a solar roof, but the incentives just don’t work out where I live. We have lots of sun, so I could plausibly produce quite a bit of excess power... but my electric company won’t buy it from me. The most they’ll do is let me offset my own consumption.
So my upside is capped at getting free electricity, which’ll save me $100-150 a month. That’s not nothing, but it’ll take a LONG time to recoup the cost.
- castratikron 9y agoThat's when you start using your excess power to mine crypto and get $0.50/kWh instead of the $0.03/kWh that your utility would give you.
- monochromatic 9y agoThat’s... crazy talk. I like it.
- lightwave 9y agoThere's a company building a distributed grid exchange system so your neighbors could get a slight discount by buying your power as opposed to that of the electricity company, and you would make more than you would by selling to the electricity company. Currently piloting this idea across a couple places in Australia and SE Asia. https://powerledger.io/ https://powerledger.io/ Edit: I clarified a sentence.