Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city

Re:Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chines... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:04AM (#20685924)

Silicon Valley is coincidentally a place where home-time and solar-peak kind of coincide. My brother's solar panels peak in the late afternoon all summer, when he's programmed the air conditioning to come on.

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Re:Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chines... by piotr1212 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:29AM (#20693668)

As European I wonder if you really need a/c in Silicon Valley? I've never been there but from weather averages it seems that the climate is comparable with Paris where a/c's are absolutely not common. Even in more southern cities like Barcelona many people don't use a/c.

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Re:Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chines... by krageon on Thursday August 15, 2019 @05:45AM (#20703854)

If you want to get very technical it is questionable whether or not you really need air conditioning anywhere. It's a luxury item and if you view it as such it's not surprising that people in SV have it - it's already a super high CoL place, might as well install some extra perks.

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Re:Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chines... by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:47AM (#20686343)

Agreed. For environments with A/C, solar is very well correlated with demand.

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