Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power

Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by dehrmann on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:28PM (#24254072)

> Empowerment isn’t really a fantasy if there are rolling blackouts but your own power is still on. Sadly, not a hypothetical in California.

Seems easier to get a generator or a Power Wall, but either ends up being pretty expensive for handling the 2 hours of rolling blackouts for the first time in 20 years. There are also longer-term outages, maybe several hours every few years? And this is for people in population centers. Living in the mountains is a different story.

> Im thinking just from a national security/redundancy/risk reduction standpoint it makes sense to move more generation closer to demand

I'd rather put the money towards removing those single points of failure.

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Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by Izkata on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:36AM (#24260488)

> Seems easier to get a generator or a Power Wall, but either ends up being pretty expensive for handling the 2 hours of rolling blackouts for the first time in 20 years.

The price of electricity changes over the day along with demand. I don't know by how much, but maybe if the Power Wall could be used in the high-cost hours and charged in the low-cost hours, it would make a difference?

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