Been powering my house exclusively for 3 years.
But this discussion isn't about that. It's about how the US does not incentivize the future like it used to, now we incentivize being Gordon Gekko. These are machines that can use dirty power, we didn't incentivize making them here.
"Wanting to cut bulk power generation" Unless the government is going to power plants and forcing them to shutdown for no good reason, this isn't true.
The government doesn't go to fossil and nuclear plants directly and shut them down, but instead regulates them out of use by applying overly ambitious controls on what they can release into the environment, and by making permits for new plants bogged down in red tape. Big coal started a steep decline with the Obama administration's changes to the industry - that in part is why I don't work in that industry any more.
Been powering my house exclusively for 3 years.
Now let's hook all your neighbors up to that and charge two electric cars a night.
They get their own panels and batteries and they can! I live in a walkable neighborhood, almost none of us have cars, but you could do it.
I don't share the opinion that those controls are overly ambitious, other countries manage fine.
That's great that you can not have a car, but here in the USA it's not an option for most people. That's the whole point of the article. The USA's electric grid isn't and never was capable of such a feat. Industry used to sop up most of the current, it's only with the waning of such we've been able to close so many plants. Even so, high consumption areas like CA still saw rolling blackouts, and they should be perfectly happy with solar. The time to act on this was 40 years ago, a push for nuclear could have happened but instead we get Watts-Bar which took 4 decades to come online due to regulatory red tape.
Other countries manage because many have the luxury of having populations smaller than some of our states, and in some cases smaller than some of our cities.
They get their own panels and batteries and they can!
Sure, they'll just poop out some money and do that, and poop out the money to maintain the panels and batteries when they reach EOL. It's like magic.
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