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Re: Power wall
Sort of and no. You can "charge from solar" but that's because your existing solar inverter generates AC, and the Powerwall takes in AC. As long as the power generated and the power used b…1 · -
Re: Finally an energy saving window unit built ! Wow
Excellent. I suspect that there will quickly be a "hack" to allow setting A/C power to match excess solar generation, so that for zero-export and off-grid installations you can ensure that…1 · -
Re: Split to California energy politics (from kWH Grid Solar)
Agreed! Real time pricing by the hour with a simple method of getting the signal (a URL with easily accessible hour-ahead pricing.) That would use market forces to quickly "fix" the power …2 · -
Re: Split to California energy politics (from kWH Grid Solar)
Agreed. It's not, for example, worth $150/mwhr (what they are paying now for nuclear) or $105/mwhr (coal.) The reason they are buying it in a very big way is that they can get it for $40/mwhr, even …2 · -
Re: Split to California energy politics (from kWH Grid Solar)
Currently subsidies are certainly needed to have solar make sense for cases like Massachusetts residential installations. But utility scale installations are already being built without subsidies. T…2 ·
