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To: Seruzawa

A good question to ask might be:
“Can this price per kwh payoff the investment in solar panels?”

My guess is, the answer will be “No.”


5 posted on 03/07/2017 8:02:21 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Redbob

These types of reports that solar power is achieving historic low prices is a con. It is achieving low wholesale prices but due to cost shifting retail electricity prices are soaring in those states that have shifted to solar power. Cost shifting means the costs of redundant natural gas power, grid coordination, new transmission lines and imported balancing power needed during sunset hours of the day are not counted in the wholesale cost of power. That is why prices are reported dropping on solar power farms but not on rooftop solar panels on residential structures where it remains uneconomic without subsidies.


24 posted on 03/07/2017 9:27:12 AM PST by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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