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Is less efficiency okay though if selling back to the grid results in more clean energy overall?
by dml2135 5y ago
Is less efficiency okay though if selling back to the grid results in more clean energy overall?
- vkou 5y agoDepends on what the trade-off is. If that efficiency would have gone to shareholders, sure. If that efficiency would have gone towards building utility-scale renewables, no.
- fluoridation 5y agoNot if the added inefficiency totally consumes the added clean energy and needs further non-clean energy to sustain it. You could end up in a situation where taking energy from residential solar panels leads to burning more coal than if you hadn't done anything.
- mcronce 5y agoOr natural gas...which has disastrous methane emissions all throughout the supply chain