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> who find that solar-plus-storage costs have declined so much that it can now provide baseload-level power in sunny cities for less than the cost of new nuclea
by pandemic_region 1y ago
> who find that solar-plus-storage costs have declined so much that it can now provide baseload-level power in sunny cities for less than the cost of new nuclear or even new gas.
What about cities that only get enough sun from about April to late September? If your battery is doing almost nothing during the other half of the year, it becomes way less cost effective. Still good, but takes twice as long to be really profitable.
- ben_w 1y agoUntil you're really close to the arctic circle, it's really cheap to just buy e.g 4x the amount of PV and then keep charging in winter anyway. Beyond a certain point, it makes more sense to use transmission lines connecting you to somewhere sunnier. The western American grid connects bits of Canada to bits of Mexico.