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Most rural areas have pretty permissive zoning. But also, other than Texas, I don't hear about a lot of regional over production. There's pretty good interconn
by toast0 6mo ago
Most rural areas have pretty permissive zoning.
But also, other than Texas, I don't hear about a lot of regional over production. There's pretty good interconnection within and between the two major grids.
- pfdietz 6mo agoOne reason you don't see overproduction is it's hard to get connected to grids. Local self-generation eliminates that roadblock. I think we're going to see increasing energy autarky in rural regions as solar gets cheaper. Assuming ultra low cost thermal storage becomes a thing, there's going to be a market for small externally heated engines to recover that heat as power. That (+ batteries) will enable complete off-grid operation with PV at small (maybe 100 kW) commercial scale and larger.