This is a really good book. The industry has shifted somewhat since it was published (the industry has shifted somewhat since yesterday), but the fundamentals are still rock solid. It belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in understanding the energy transition.
Thanks and greetings from ISES' German chapter DGS, turning 50 this year. We've been advocating solar energy for decades and good reason.
Wishing best of success for you and for humanity in next 50 years.
(Total population will collapse, yet solar communities will be more resilient.)
Thus, go solar!
Thanks! The next step for me is neighborhood-scale microgrid controllers for granular distributed energy generation and sodium-ion battery storage. Resiliency and reliability.
Our model is adjacent to the neighborhood. We intercept the utility feeder line with our controller and sell directly to all the residents - no subscription needed. vpp upstream from the controller for power augmentation and excess would definitely be ideal too. I'll see if Colo PUC is game. Thx!
Yep, eliminating transmission losses is one of our "cascading values". Plus its distributed resiliency and reliability.
Here's another option - require adjacent land and micropower on new exurban development with updated land use regs. Then we reduce the growth demands of utilities.
Very nice. I'm familiar with Sunnova but not this initiative. Our model is a smaller scale - 1 to 2 mw and adjacent to a neighborhood for the residents direct benefit. Plus it's agrisolar so power AND produce. We sell power directly - no utility intermediary. https://www.communitygreenfields.org
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Hey, has anybody heard of facing old flatscreen tv's toward the sun and connecting the right wires to get electricity out of them??
Wishing best of success for you and for humanity in next 50 years.
(Total population will collapse, yet solar communities will be more resilient.)
Thus, go solar!
Hey, has anybody heard of facing old flatscreen tv's toward the sun and connecting the right wires to get electricity out of them??
And vpp capability.
Out of interest, have you looked at the efficiency of the capital and distribution costs relative to larger centralised arrays?
Grid distribution losses can be upwards of 8%. So wondering if you see this advantage with local community arrays.
Here's another option - require adjacent land and micropower on new exurban development with updated land use regs. Then we reduce the growth demands of utilities.
https://investors.sunnova.com/news-events-and-presentations/news-details/2024/Sunnova-Awarded-Microgrid-Project-to-Bolster-Grid-Resiliency-for-Penobscot-Nation-in-Maine/default.aspx