Gdadddy t1_iw3rsau wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Accessible to People with Lower Incomes, But Not Fast Enough - Inside Climate News by darth_nadoma
Energy compagny buy the excedent of private owned solar panels at very low price, and sell it back at the regular price, taking the same margins as on other sources and having no problem to fonction.
In this situation you might look for problems whithout looking for the solutions that exist already and implement naturally
SNRatio t1_iw5f13a wrote
>Energy compagny buy the excedent of private owned solar panels at very
low price, and sell it back at the regular price, taking the same
margins as on other sources and having no problem to fonction.
This increases the cost of the last mile infrastructure, as it turns out a lot of older infrastructure doesn't have the capacity to handle whole neighborhoods putting electricity back onto the grid.
It also forces utilities to use more expensive peaker plants to generate electricity at the times when solar isn't providing as much.
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> taking the same margins as on other sources
If they take the same margins as from other sources, then there are no additional funds available to make up for the shortfall. They need to have a much higher margins (compared to other sources) to do that.
cruisereg t1_iw5ki77 wrote
No funds for the shortfall? What about the massive profits? My utility’s parent company (Duke Energy) made over $18 Billion in profit in 2021. So yeah I’m not buying the whole shortfall thing.
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