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Imagine dividing your solar capacity among several hundred dwelling units in an NYC apartment complex and then you might be close to an apples-to-apples compari

• sxates 5y ago
  The benefits of electrification are not limited to those with local solar production. But obviously if you are generating your own power, running everything on that same fuel type has big benefits.
• rsstack 5y ago
  Solar in NYC is complicated. In my condo building, there are 500 apartments and the roof area is about 10k sqft, and it's shadowed by our neighboring building about a third of the day. However, there are some fascinating cases that work: https://www.stuytown.com/sustainability/solar https://www.stuytown.com/sustainability/solar This project is almost complete and seems to be working really well.
• photochemsyn 5y ago
  Well, in that case you'd also want to add in things like offshore wind capacity and large remote solar array capacity and remote energy storage capacity. A NYC apartment complex can no more be expected to be energy-independent any more than it can be food-independent. Cities will always require the import of significant materials, food, and energy from surrounding areas, and electricity is actually a more efficient means of importing energy than natural gas is. Replacing all the diesel trucks and buses with electrical versions, that's equally desirable. Cities will become much cleaner places, which is to everyone's benefit.