Re:Interior cancels largest solar project in North America
by aeonfox on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:28PM
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Most rooftops generate more power than the household consumes. The vast amount of air-conditioning for apartments is likely already accounted for by rooftop generation. An easy way to gridscale that is to have batteries closer to the rooftops that re-distribute that rooftop power when the sun goes down. Incentives can be given so that home owners over-provision their solar with bigger arrays and inverters, and to turn their home batteries into VPPs.
This is why I'd rather a rule like "you must have enough solar to cover your aircon power over a hot summer" and then gridscale the rest.
Instead, I too will enjoy my almost-aristocratic landowner status and will be upgrading my solar setup in the near future.