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Panel and battery prices have come down such that transmission losses, natural disasters to farms, last mile power lines in storms, etc become bigger concerns c
by elif 3y ago
Panel and battery prices have come down such that transmission losses, natural disasters to farms, last mile power lines in storms, etc become bigger concerns comparatively.
I think the end-use solar and battery model makes more and more sense every year from a consumer perspective.
- einpoklum 3y agoNote that you don't necessarily have to put the panels and the batteries at the same place. You can, and there are benefits like DC <-> AC conversion, but you could in theory de-centralize solar more than you de-centralize battery storage. And there may be some scale advantages there, especially since some storage technologies involve putting things underground, or high temperatures which are a safety concern like with molten salt, etc. Caveat: I'm just a layman about this stuff.