Comment on Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries

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• silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lack of batteries hasn’t really been a barrier; people generally sell excess power generated back to their utility during the day and use electricity from their utility at night

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  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, I’d had this impression from other conversations that batteries were half the cost of getting into solar, but perhaps that was for going off grid altogether (in which case I’d imagine the power company would want their battery back)

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, if you want to go fully off-grid, it’s a lot more expensive; you need enough batteries to store full overnight power, and you need enough solar panels to charge them on a cloudy day in winter. It’s vastly cheaper to do an on-grid system where you generate as much electricity as you use over the course of a year, which is a lot more common.

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