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Is grid solar always cheaper? I could see that, I could also see that not being the case in the short term if the power lines need to be replaced (or buried in
by mattnewton 3y ago
Is grid solar always cheaper? I could see that, I could also see that not being the case in the short term if the power lines need to be replaced (or buried in California because of wildfires). It seems harder to do coordinated actions politically rather than let consumers buy products.
- baggy_trough 3y agoBy "let" you mean "force", correct?
- bombcar 3y agoI don't see how rooftop solar can ever really be "cheaper" than grid, if you allow grid to be "small grid" - e.g., in a local area.
- sbierwagen 3y agoHow many people are connected to "small grids" today in California?
- bombcar 3y agoEveryone is, because the grid is built out of smaller grids. You and some number of your neighbors are connected to a transformer, some number of those transformers are connected to a larger transformer, and so on up the chain until you have an actual large grid.
- sbierwagen 3y agoOkay, but this thread is talking about billing, right? That's the point of talking about costs. How many people in California are paying their electricity bills to a utility that covers just their neighborhood, and nobody else?
- bombcar 3y agoThe thread was talking about non-rooftop solar overloading the grid. But you don’t have to go straight from non-rooftop to multi square mile power plant - you can have an intermediary that would reduce grid stress and not increase it.