You store the excess power in batteries.
Then it can be used during peak usage and/or overnight.
MSN writing is some of the dumbest I have ever read.
Many companies are offering this solution, but the biggest is Tesla and nothing more than political reasons they are dumping on solar/battery and EVs.
Before some of you pop a gasket let me say this. I hate mandates an you have the right to buy whatever vehicle you want.i personally have nothing against gas/diesel except for the FACT that it is a political football. We can go from cheap & plentiful gas with one President to $7/gallon with another and much of the Inflation we are suffering thru is from fuel priced.
I’m a geek a heart and Elon figured out how to get a rocket to land on a barge in the middle of the ocean 7 years ago and the competition isn’t even close. In EVs he figured it out. A Teala is cheaper to operate than a gas car and it’s features far surpass even luxury brands. Does it solve everything? No, but people are buying them left & right regardless what all the FUD in the media are saying.
Back to solar/batteries. It works. It’s not for every case and it will need some sort of backup when weather blocks the power source for an extended period of time. It’s far more efficient & cheaper than wind which is a joke IMHO.
The big reason the left does not like about personal solar/battery residential & commercial systems is CONTROL. They lose control when the consumer owns the source, distribution of their own energy.
Here is a guy in New Jersey not California or the sun belt, Jersey who has a solar/battery & a Tesla EV. For the year his net electric bill is zero. Powers his house & appliances and his transportation for a net cost of $0.00 a year. OK, there was a minimum charge for having an account with his local utility.
The only drawback is the initial cost of the system but with utility rates rising as fast as gas/diesel it pays for itself pretty fast.
Sorry for the rant, but after reading the MSN article and seeing it for what it is. I felt compelled.
Correct; as with nearly everything else in the economy, the problem isn’t the market, it’s the government compelling behavior, and picking market winners and losers through policies and sometimes laws, that’s the problem.
As a bonus they take the wrongs they create and gin up a new generation of red diaper doper babies crying about “capitalism” as if capitalism is the cause of a government mandate here, a stopped energy source there, and a speck of your own money back if you just do What You’re Told.
There’s some word that used to mean “when government uses business as its pawn to effect unfreedom” but the dopes only know to use it to mean “anything the MSM tells me I’m supposed to disagree with.”