Yeah, community solar parks are really the best because they remove a whole lot of these soft costs.
These soft costs include:
- bureaucracy (you need 1 permit instead of 100 permits),
- nobody needs to climb on a roof,
- shipping many panels at once to the installation site is much more efficient than only shipping 5-8 modules at a time
additionally, any kind of fixed-cost complexity is spread over a bigger field. i.e., you should add circuit breakers to make sure the solar panels don’t feed into the grid when the energy prices are already negative.
adding that breaker has a fixed and constant price. adding one breaker to a large park is more efficient than adding 100 breakers into a 100 households.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Thanks. There’s way too many people who don’t see the problems with rooftop residential solar. Commercial/industrial rooftop can work out, but fields are the cheapest electricity you can get.