Re:Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
by adrianN on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:16AM
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You can't just buy land and build wind turbines and solar panels. You need expensive permits and then spend a couple of years in court battling various citizen groups who don't like renewables anywhere near their homes. You can't even put solar panels on the roof of an apartment building and then sell the power to the tenants, regulation prevents it.
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> You can't even put solar panels on the roof of an apartment building and then sell the power to the tenants, regulation prevents it.
At least in my country, AFAIK regulation explicitly allows for something like that: there's a net metering modality in which a group of consumers (for instance, a condominium) can split the credits from the net metering of a shared solar power plant. It's meant for precisely that scenario (power panels on the roof of an apartment building, each apartment has its own independent meter).
Awesome. I hope Germany fixes the legislation around solar too.
Coal mines and power plants face the same challenges. They manage, somehow.
Re:Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
by formerly_proven on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:36AM
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They manage because politics pushes these things through while creating new regulations for renewables.
E.g. in Germany one of the chancellor candidates was state MP and personally & illegally forced expansion of coal strip mining while enacting new rules making wind power essentially impossible in his state.