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Once you add in the costs of additional transmission needed for utility scale solar, rooftop solar is extremely competitive. Especially as transmission capital
by epistasis 2y ago
Once you add in the costs of additional transmission needed for utility scale solar, rooftop solar is extremely competitive.
Especially as transmission capital costs start to skyrocket, and solar capital costs plummet.
I have yet to see an economic argument in favor of utility scale solar over residential solar that takes into account the T&D upgrades necessary from utility scale solar.
- bobthepanda 2y agoWe will need both, or at least something else, since not every building has a rooftop that can generate sufficient solar.
- epistasis 2y agoAgreed. I think we will also start to see lots of industrial sites that have their own utility scale installs that don't even feed back into the grid, and are used directly, and coupled with thermal or chemical storage.