Re:Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4
by xkjkls on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:07AM
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Industrial solar generally has much less maintenance costs than distributed. There’s some exceptions, Hawaii for instance, but it’s very expensive to have to constantly maintain solar panels in peoples homes in ways that industrial solar isn’t
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Many setups I saw (PV) are mainly maintained by being washed by rain, and I fail to understand why the maintenance of a (non obsolete) home solar panel would be expensive (neglecting vandalism/theft)(?)
Moreover energy produced by solar panels in homes is locally consumed, therefore there is no maintenance (nor any non-neglectable cost or loss) related to distribution (they are non neglectable).
Solar panels and accompanying equipment break. It’s much easier to maintain a centralized installation than having people need to travel for service.
Home thermo solar (solar water heating) sometimes breaks (pump...) but a home setup is so simple many owners can repair it themselves, and nearly all can easily find a local serviceman, a competent plumber can tackle most problems.
As for photovoltaic a home system seems very robust to me, even serious hail cannot damage it (some windshields will break under it way before the panels!).
I completely fail to see even a single and most prominent problem.
In a sunny geographical zones there usually are many user, and a is local service offering.