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Solar has a limited economic lifetime but it is in terms of centuries, not years. Panels just don't degrade that quickly in practice, and even when they do degr
by jeffbee 3y ago
Solar has a limited economic lifetime but it is in terms of centuries, not years. Panels just don't degrade that quickly in practice, and even when they do degrade at higher rates than expected, it's irrelevant to the economics of the projects. You'll be hard-pressed to find a large-scale solar power station that has been retired, even among the oldest of them.
- TheAlchemist 3y agoSo, this is what I don't get. If this stuff is install once, profit for 25-50 years, how is it possible that electricity in Portugal is so expensive ? Something doesn't add up here.
- jeffbee 3y agoI don’t know but I do know the answer for California. The answer is: as distributed solar and battery power proliferate, normalizing the price of electricity per kWh makes less and less sense because increasingly what you are paying for is not energy but intangible grid stability. Until finally you’re not drawing any current from the grid and your utility charge is infinity per kWh.