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A lot? Try a few percent. That's what bad transmission costs. Compare that to the additional costs in actual dollars and cents of multiplying your install costs
by idiotsecant 3y ago
A lot? Try a few percent. That's what bad transmission costs. Compare that to the additional costs in actual dollars and cents of multiplying your install costs by the number of installs required to achieve the required mwh. Its not even close.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoGeneration is 44% of an electric utility's operating costs: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_03.html https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_03.html You're confusing the line item called "transmission" with the concept that the electric utility's entire operations expense is in service of operating the power grid and all of that gets included in the price per kWh whenever you buy power through the grid. A property owner who is installing their own solar and consuming the output themselves can avoid the other 56% of those costs. Which is well worth a one-time labor cost.