California cuts payments to solar powered homes
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So less incentive to buy solar then? How much do they provide to the grid anyway? I understand that California has a lot of sunshine but the efficiency of the panels isn't the best....
Reminds me of "solar frickin' roadways, dude!" and the scam company pushing this, "discovering" years into the grift that solar pannels laying flat have a very poor energy output.
It was a bad idea vut you were an idiot wanting to destroy the climate for pointing out it was a scam.
It made the solar elevators and power ring in Gundam 00 actually realistic in comparison. Hell even that one place from the original Ratchet and Clank game with the lightning storm had better renewable energy plans than these scammers and idiots.
Solar panels in space are a much better idea than solar in atmosphere.
Its the orbal elevator part that's kinda iffy
California is a green state. They import energy from the icky neighbors because they can only produce ~40% of what they need, but fortunately as soon as the energy crosses the border, it is mandated green.
Californication continues.
I don't know what the efficiency is like. I heard that it takes about 20 years for them to pay for themselves, but that may be outdated and it depends on what kind of incentives you can get for installing them.
Easy fix. Just increase the price of electricity 50x. Ukraine will be happy, and you get a return on your solar incentives!
Everybody wins.
I installed solar panels on my house. About a 8-9 year break even. I've generated between 70-85% of my annual energy consumption every year since I installed them. If I had a battery system, I could be pretty damn close to completely independent of the grid.
EDIT: panels should have a 20-25+ year life, and effectively zero maintenance. Strongly positive after year 10-15.
Maybe in some parts of the world you need to do maintenance, but I don't. Rain keeps them clean. That's it. I've had the panels around 3.5 years now and I have not done a thing in that time.
It does nothing for the grid in terms of making it cheaper for everyone else. It lets people feel like they reduce CO2 emissions and gives them a discount on their electricity after an upfront investment.
I don't even hate solar panels, but let's not pretend like we're decentralizing power generation with them. Maybe if you hook your house up to a whole-house battery that can get through several cloudy days. I'm all for not relying on the government.
But people want to act like all the excess power they generate is magically and freely stored for them by the electric company. When in fact, peak generation is at minimum demand time.
They've already made solar panels mandatory on all new houses, so they don't really need incentive anymore.