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As a new homeowner I enjoy having solar on the roof. Coming from being an apartment owner... apartment owners are generally fucked when it comes to this stuff.
by _carbyau_ 1y ago
As a new homeowner I enjoy having solar on the roof. Coming from being an apartment owner... apartment owners are generally fucked when it comes to this stuff. Even if you want it, convincing a board of "gimme rent" landlords to spend money on solar they won't benefit from generally kills it.
This is why I'd rather a rule like "you must have enough solar to cover your aircon power over a hot summer" and then gridscale the rest.
Instead, I too will enjoy my almost-aristocratic landowner status and will be upgrading my solar setup in the near future.
- aeonfox 1y agoMost rooftops generate more power than the household consumes. The vast amount of air-conditioning for apartments is likely already accounted for by rooftop generation. An easy way to gridscale that is to have batteries closer to the rooftops that re-distribute that rooftop power when the sun goes down. Incentives can be given so that home owners over-provision their solar with bigger arrays and inverters, and to turn their home batteries into VPPs.