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Home solar saving the day for my neighbors in Houston today, actually.
by ckemere 6y ago
Home solar saving the day for my neighbors in Houston today, actually.
- u678u 6y agoI'm not saying its bad for the people with solar, I'm saying everyone else suffers because of the people with solar.
- dawnerd 6y agoThat's an incredibly bad take.
- barbacoa 6y agoElectrical codes require grid-tie solar inverters to shut off if the utility power fails.
- dawnerd 6y agoNo, they're just not allowed to export, you can still generate.
- extrapickles 6y agoYou only have to shut off if you don't have the ability to disconnect yourself from the grid. Automatic switches are fairly expensive ($500-2k), so unless you also have battery storage, you generally opt out to save money.
- gwright 6y agoI think the point that was trying to be made is that wide-spread deployment of residential solar isn't a panacea. You still need to provide sufficient grid capacity to serve the customers when there is no sun. And you have to pay for that standby grid capacity whether you are using it or not. That isn't a problem when the residential solar is a tiny percentage of the customer base but it is a problem with wide-spread deployment. The same problem exists at the grid-level as you ramp up grid-scale wind/solar -- that doesn't mean you can decommission the other generating capacity and so total cost of the grid goes up, not down. https://www.americanexperiment.org/2018/11/renewables-cheap-germanys-electricity-expensive/ https://www.americanexperiment.org/2018/11/renewables-cheap-...