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Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders by erikpukinskis on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:59AM (#12230527)
How is a centralized grid more likely to be functioning after a disaster than decentralized solar panels?
Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders by ProAm on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:27PM (#12234695)
It's not but I put WAY more faith into people that work for power company's to know how to fix things on a large scale than most fly-by-night solar companies. If the wall battery gets flooded, solar panels damaged, etc... there won't be enough skilled people to fix every decentralized install. And they may need power from on the grid to help with repairs.