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So you're suggesting that commercial users use less electricity in during peak illuminance than residential? I don't buy that. If you want to place the solar wh
by 01100011 5y ago
So you're suggesting that commercial users use less electricity in during peak illuminance than residential? I don't buy that. If you want to place the solar where the electricity is being consumed between 10am - 2pm you're going to put it on a commercial rooftop.
- epistasis 5y agoCommercial rooftop, residential rooftop, doesn't matter much at the geographic scale of grids. Certainly doesn't hurt to put it on commercial roofs though! And since those are often flat, it's probably a lot safer. Check out the map of electrical infrastructure in California: https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/apps/california-electric-infrastructure-app/explore https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/apps/california-... You'll see that on the scale of substations, industry is right next to residential, and virtually indistinguishable. Consider 500MW placed on the roofs of homes in San Jose, versus 500MW in a somewhat close green field build. The distant green field build is going to send every single kWh over transmission lines. Where as close to 0 kWh of the residential solar would hit transmission, meaning that all transmission requirements are lessened, as are distribution requirements.