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Residential solar in the US is largely a greenwashing, financialization to exploit homeowners. 99.9% of the time, there is no battery or inverter in these syste
by throwiforgtnlzy 3y ago
Residential solar in the US is largely a greenwashing, financialization to exploit homeowners. 99.9% of the time, there is no battery or inverter in these systems and they lack 2/3-way ATCs and instead fail completely without grid power "for safety".
Commercial-scale solar is an entirely different beast, and Texas is crushing it post-snowpocalypse, without much thanks to ERCOT. [0]
0. Similarly-timed press-release with a picture of a large deployment: https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/texas-solar-surpasses-coal-production-for-first-time/ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/tex...
- cyclotron3k 2y agoAny idea why rooftop solar hasn't taken off? In Australia it's going gang busters and contributes about 2x the energy of our grid-scale solar.