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My benchmark for utility scale solar is the installation in Australia that was 100MW and 129MWH and cost about 100 million So making $40/MWH * 100 MWH/day = $4
by applied_heat 3y ago
My benchmark for utility scale solar is the installation in Australia that was 100MW and 129MWH and cost about 100 million
So making $40/MWH * 100 MWH/day = $4000 per day * 365 day/yr = 1.4 million revenue per year. Not enough to pay back $100 million.
Like you said The economics of it keep improving though
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- Gibbon1 3y agoI think that thing makes money because utilities will pay though the nose for a reserve of instant on demand power.
- applied_heat 3y agoRight, so then we are back to that cost being recovered from ratepayers.
- Gibbon1 3y agoBut they're paying less for that than before. The price power commands depends a lot on how flexible the power source is. Batteries because they provide grid stabilization can charge a premium price.