If you are running a solar business and see a crazy rate of installs and reimbursements that are obviously too high to make sense, then you'd better do some good long term planning.
If you think the gravy train is never going to end and are caught off guard, that's your fault.
The subsidies for CA did the intended task of converting nearly the entire grid to solar during day time hours. That's a tremendous boost in clean energy and clean air. Now that that is done, the payments scheme has changed.
If you thought CA was going to keep subsidizing solar installs w/o batteries far past the true demand... that's poor business sense and your business probably doesn't deserve to make it.
The lowly installers and college kids they had knocking on doors are likely all broke and among the people fleeing the state.
What's your point? That door-to-door solar sales and construction labor aren't the most stable life-long careers?
Not really. At least not with lithium. Lithium batteries cost quite a bit to maintain, you have to replace them frequently and you are have to consider the time value for money.
per kWh implies fixed cost. I was asking if you had comparable numbers for installation and operation of gas peaker plant. You can just say "no"
Looks like $133 per MWh LCOS for Lithium storage. Roughly 20-30% cheaper LCOS than gas peaker plants.
In the third article, a combined cycle gas turbine produces the cheapest power. A peaker gas turbine only is kept available for a few hours a year, those critical hours where everything is running and still customers want more power. And typically, your gas peakers, the generation of last resort, are not very efficient at all. Combined cycle gas turbines are much more efficient.
it tells you how deep in the pockets of big oil the GOP is that the supposedly independent minded libertarians seem to live to diss people who actually "prep" for energy issues -- or seek to make a buck off of -- renewable solutions. guess the only prepper solution allowed is a gas generator behind the house.
but then to me 40 years ago the GOP would have been pro-vaccine on a survivalist basis. like they used to be pro-abortion and anti-gun.
In the third article, a combined cycle gas turbine produces the cheapest power. A peaker gas turbine only is kept available for a few hours a year, those critical hours where everything is running and still customers want more power. And typically, your gas peakers, the generation of last resort, are not very efficient at all. Combined cycle gas turbines are much more efficient.
But the comparison here is for batteries used to cover for peak demand when solar availability wanes.
Solar during the day time w/o batteries is far cheaper than any gas system. Especially since prices have fallen further since 2020.
Someone else can calculate the combined solar daytime + battery peak vs. combined-cycle system large enough to handle daytime + peak.
Not really. At least not with lithium. Lithium batteries cost quite a bit to maintain, you have to replace them frequently and you are have to consider the time value for money.
per kWh implies fixed cost. I was asking if you had comparable numbers for installation and operation of gas peaker plant. You can just say "no"
Looks like $133 per MWh LCOS for Lithium storage. Roughly 20-30% cheaper LCOS than gas peaker plants.
Renewable energy is a sham. You lie when you say Texas builds renewable energy facilities. Texas does NOT do that. Various woke ESG companies from out of state build those facilities in Texas because the supreme Court has ruled that states like Texas are not permitted to regulate commerce in their own state - they must give licenses to phony out of state business.
Oh Really? Can you link the Supreme Court case that decided that specific issue here?
Any Supreme Court case extending the Commerce Clause in the last 75 years.
But that wasn't my point and you know it. Texas is not building useless renewable energy plants. Out of state woke ESG companies are.
I live in TX and have no idea what you are talking about. Do you have nay idea of the problems we have with our grid? What the hell are you going on about?
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