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O.T Carbon Tax v's PV ecomonic? but for who 19-Aug-2011 At 3:05:31 PM uwhp510

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On 19/08/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>I reckon this idea goes to shit with grid-connected solar because you're
>probably not home during the day to use the power you're generating..........so
>it gets fed into the grid, which requires a grid, which requires grid maintainance........
>so how are we saving money?

A lot of people are at home during the day, cranking up their air conditioners apparently, which is when the brownouts happen. The required capacity of the grid is determined by peak loads, so if you can reduce the peak loads through decentralised generation (which will work super well on the hot aircon days) then your grid can be crappier/cheaper to maintain (isn't it?). This doesn't seem like a super hard concept... :)