Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe
mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours agoYou aren’t wrong, but you are assuming that the grid is required. Solar panels can be installed at the point of use, and then the grid doesn’t come into it at all.
frezik@midwest.social 9 hours ago
That’s the worst way to do solar, though. It doesn’t get to take advantage of economies of scale in installation and inverters. Some levelized cost of energy studies put it just as expensive as nuclear.
Solar gets its cheapness when it’s in fields or on top of large, flat commercial/industrial buildings.
mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Do commercial/industrial buildings not require power then?
frezik@midwest.social 8 hours ago
There’s often enough space on those buildings for excess power. Not all those buildings have particularly intensive energy needs. Many are just warehouses.