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And it also runs on natural gas all day and night, so why bother with solar at all? Sans incentives and regulations, solar makes little economic sense for most
by glitchc 3y ago
And it also runs on natural gas all day and night, so why bother with solar at all? Sans incentives and regulations, solar makes little economic sense for most use cases.
Steel (and in general metal) production most definitely uses electricity, and copious amounts of it.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoWhy bother? Solar can produce electricity for 0.5c / kWh during the daytime. That's why.
- megaman821 3y agoI don't understand, if you are using natural gas for electricity why not make it last twice as long and use the cheaper solar during the day?
- Ajedi32 3y agoThere's an opportunity cost to having an expensive power plant just sitting around doing nothing during the day. Yes you use less fuel, but how much of the cost of power is the fuel itself vs infrastructure and other non-marginal costs? So only if the total cost of solar is less than the marginal cost of gas would it make economic sense to replace gas with solar during the day.