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"Solar energy is, by far, the cheapest and most efficient way to generate
electricity today. From personal experience, I can say that installing solar
panels on a house is a sure way to save anything up to €3,000 a year, depending
on whether or not the installation includes a heat pump and battery.
A recent study published in
Nature estimates that the planet’s entire energy
needs could be met by simply installing solar panels on half the world’s roofs,
which is why more and more governments are encouraging people to do.
The problem is that most people in the world cannot install solar panels,
either because they have no access to the roof of their house, live in rented
accommodation, or because they live in apartments. One solution is community
solar installations, which is enjoying a boom in the United States, where they
are marketed as “the Netflix of solar”: users purchase or rent a portion of a
solar installation located conveniently, and receive a credit on their monthly
bill for the electricity generated by their part of that solar PV system, as if
the system were located on their roof.
This approach not only saves money, but in many cases, domestic installations
do not have the right characteristics in terms of shape or orientation, as well
as requiring maintenance, very little, but potentially cumbersome. Furthermore,
in countries with high levels of sunshine, it is now possible to install solar
panels on farmland using agrivoltaic technologies that are only more
productive, but also allow the industrialization and mechanization of many
agricultural tasks thanks to the immediate availability of electricity right in
the field.
The cost of making solar panels and batteries has fallen by 99% and 97%
respectively in recent years, while their efficiency has increased markedly.
Which is why it makes sense to invest in order to oversize your installation as
much as possible and to supply as much demand as possible. Community solar
energy is simply a way of trying to extend the savings generated by this energy
source to those people who, in principle, ruled out its use because they did
not have a roof available, but who can now use renewable energy generated by
these panels located elsewhere."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
