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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by cool_dude85 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:44PM (#33727589)
What you're looking for is just a very small utility company. At 5MW of load you'll be needing distribution, substations, maintenance for all the above, planning, etc. The overhead you'd need at such a small scale of sales would probably surprise you.
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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by amluto on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:43PM (#33734832)
And yet most of the world, and even most of the US, does this, including generation, for some $200/MWH less than PG&E. I’m not saying it’s cheap. I’m saying that the amount of money on the table is very large.

(Distribution cost really ought to scale roughly linearly in the length of the system. I don’t know if it does in practice. As a data point, Palo Alto manages to run their entire system for considerably less money than PG&E, and Palo Alto is not an inexpensive place to do anything.)

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