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On that very different topic... Complaints almost exclusively from local privatized electricity monopolies. The US residential solar footprint is a drop in the
by ilikehurdles 7y ago
On that very different topic... Complaints almost exclusively from local privatized electricity monopolies. The US residential solar footprint is a drop in the ocean compared to central European nations (thinking Germany in particular). Public utilities see reduced reliance on their service as a success, while for-profit utilities see it as a threat.
- colechristensen 7y agoThe US isn't Germany. Our population density is very much lower so transmission costs per connection are very much higher. I grew up in an area where the length of transmission line per home would easily have been calculated in miles. I currently live in an area where transmission line per home would be measured in feet or maybe inches.
- hannasanarion 7y agoThe population density is pretty much the same if you ignore the plains states and other extreme rural areas, who get their water from wells anyway. A city of a million people is a city of a million people, regardless of whether your country contains the Rocky mountains or not.