please explain this for me anyway so I can understand better how solar interacts with the energy grid from your point of view.
i’m aware of my POV
I have only had solar PV since 1999, almost 22 years, the first 19.5 generating 11% of my needs and the last 2.5 140% of my needs
I welcome additional education always
from what i could tell, my transmission costs were less to move electrons 50 _feet_ as opposed to the around _100,000_ ft (roughly 15-20 or so miles) from the generation plant on the Potomac or other ones since electrons are fungible.
(essentially zero marginal transmission cost)
from whom? the off gridders used “dump loads”
you _are_ famiar with the amounts of energy and electricity presently wasted?
(rejected energy)
(i have been mildly active and studied renewables since the mid 1960’s, worked with computers and biotechnology )
what do you do for a living? just curious
a casual look at below graphic gives a rough 2% from solar at best, though if you go back 10+ years it was a minuscule amount enough to be ignored
what will that graph look like in 10 years when solar and wind are a far larger proportion? The utilities 100 year steady revenue stream is rapidly attenuating
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