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We're trying to fit square peg into round hole - after 50 years of centralized grid with one type of predictable demand curve now we got all those people that d
by llukas 8y ago
We're trying to fit square peg into round hole - after 50 years of centralized grid with one type of predictable demand curve now we got all those people that dare to install their own solar.
I'd wish that utilities would stop fighting and accept inevitable.
- slavik81 8y agoWhat's the inevitable?
- js8 8y agoI would think move to renewables and more decentralization (more choices for individual consumers, as it happened with almost any other industry).
- gregoriol 8y agoDecentralized is not really the problem here: it's more about the links between each installation and the surplus. It's harder to see it with electricity, but think as if it was water for example: if people were pumping water at home and pushing it into pipes to others, and not that many water was actually needed, where would it go?
- js8 8y agoBy decentralization I mean something different, decentralization of energy production. The fact that, say, a village can decide to install a solar panel array to satisfy some of their energy demands, and they don't have to rely on powerful (and often global) energy companies who mine coal or process oil, is an important game changer in terms of power relations between people.
- pjc50 8y agoYou just have to buy the solar panels from a global megacorp instead. Don't get me wrong, this kind of decentralisation can be very effective in small isolated communities such as the Scottish islands, but for most places doing it locally is both more difficult and more expensive.
- Dylan16807 8y ago> You just have to buy the solar panels from a global megacorp instead. That's still a massive improvement in competition. But I'm pretty sure it's also not true and tons of companies make solar panels.
- TYPE_FASTER 8y agoThe service utilities provide changes from energy production to energy storage, distribution, and management.