Shortly after President Joe Biden offered tax credits to anyone buying solar panels, a Colorado homeowner named Stacie took out loans to install $30,000 worth of panels on her roof. Nearly six months later, however, those panels sat unused, generating no power.
The problem seemed to have a simple fix: Stacie's energy provider merely needed to hook the panels up to its power grid—but there's no room.
wat? That's not how they work, they don't need to be connected to the grid to draw energy from the sun and provide it to your home. That's for you being able to supply excess power to the grid, other people, and get a check for the output. This seems stupid.
They aren't looking to be 100% off the grid, they want to keep their grid connection and backfeed into the grid when they aren't using the panel's full output. That's probably what's keeping them from turning the panels on.
Batteries, how do they work? Is that literally all this is? There' nowhere for excess power to go? That can just be burned off, or not gathered. It doesn't need to be stored, it doesn't need to be sent to the grid. I'm so confused. This article is retarded, so are you though which explains why you understand the nonissue.
Nearly 1,300 gigawatts worth of green energy projects, for example, are waiting to be connected to power, according to a recent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report. The country's entire electric grid has an installed power capacity of just 1,250 gigawatts.
THAT IS MEANINGLESS. reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Just turn the panels off (not collecting and transferring energy), it wouldn't take some enormous technological feat. If there's no current draw OFF, if there is: ON. Also that number is clearly a (((lie))). That's at 100% efficiency at peak hours, which will never even come close to being reached. This article feels like feel good porn for (((green energy))).
The issue is they want to spin their electric meter backwards when there's excess power and the local utility isn't willing to make the proper connections. You can't just feed power back into the grid, it has to be properly isolated and connected or you get energized lines when linemen are expecting them to be dead.
If they just wanted to be off the grid they'd tell the utility to pull the meter and that would be that.
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