- Electricity pricing is very complex, and the costs that go into your electricity bill vary dramatically from place to place. Trying to simplify this complexity with simple statements is usually misleading.
- Solar and wind can increase electricity bills in some cases, as electric bills often include costs of adapting electricity grids for renewables.
- However, more solar and wind does not necessarily result in more expensive electricity bills. There are many examples of U.S. states with high proportions of solar and wind power where households still pay relatively little for electricity.
Lovely article. More people should read this.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
As the bullet points imply, generation is not the sole coast of electricity, grid management and load management are massive contributors to electricity costs (and renewables tend to make those specific components more expensive).