| ▲ | 0x457 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Now try sell that electricity to a home owner with solar PV and maybe a battery and you will get laughed out of the room. In EU, the split between flats (apartments) and houses is roughly 50/50, depending on how densely populated the country is. In the US, it about 1/3 in apartments. Canada is roughly 50/50, with a slight detached-house bias. Not that it doesn't mean houseowner vs renter. Landlords have next to zero incentive to install solar PV because renters pay for electricity. In the US about 7% of homes have solar, I don't know about EU and Canada. Solar can't provide baseline and even in sunny SoCal, you will go back to the grid often enough that being off-the-grid isn't reasonable for the typical household. Anyway, we still need new nuclear power plants. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | adrianN 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I have 1kW of solar on my balcony with some storage. That's enough to satisfy a large part of my demand. On sunny days I produce 4-6kWh, depending on the season. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ViewTrick1002 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Have you heard of balcony solar? Stick some storage with it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony_solar_power So you want a peaking nuclear plant for firming? Vogtle costs 18 cents/kWh when running at 100% 24/7 all year around. A typical gas peaker runs at 15-25% of the time. Running a peaking Vogtle now costs somewhere like 60-90 cents/kWh. As soon as new built nuclear power with ruinously expensive CAPEX and acceptable OPEX hits the raw physical incentive systems of the our energy system it just becomes stupid. | |||||||||||||||||
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