Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 week agoIf somebody has to keep that gas generator serviced only to run it on winter mornings, that electricity is going to be very pricey.
psud@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Indeed, but cheaper than enough batteries to cover those times
In the off grid home scale one I’d size and set the generator to run for several hours in a row to fully charge the battery on days when the battery was at a sufficiently low charge entering the night, at least that’s what my current modelling suggests. Diesel gensets work best when running fully loaded for at least long enough to warm up