It’s all theory. That’s why I think it’s worth a try and learn the facts.
Edit: A rough estimation with averages: 10 kWp gives 11kwh a year in Swiss, 1kwp panel costs 500€, 1kwh energy costs 0,28 EUR in Swiss. Panel material costs for 10 kWp is 5,000€ and earns you 3,080€ (11,000*0,28€) yearly. This shows the value of the idea.
Deployment on rails is dirty cheap. Can be highly automated and you have highvolt power line just a few meters away.
If you put solar upon your roof, 2/3 of the costs are labor costs. The material bill encompasses electrics, mounting system, cables, and pv panels that can get reduced on railways as well.
It’s stupid and genius at once. So, worth a try.
Having this indicator in mind, it’s a bit fad to spot AI text easily (and everwhere)
I‘m not a bot — AI m a bitch.
Browsing over this text, I see directly, that it’s written or at least fine-tuned by AI. The overuse of emdash is obvious — instead a simple comma.
It isn’t new — it’s interesting 8-P
Good news.
In Germany, we have a special situation currently: our minister for energy is a Trojan horse of the old guys energy club. She worked as CEO for a utility compnay that is heavily in gas power. And guess what she proposes now to stabilize the demand-production-balance? Yes, build more gas generators. Everybody hates her. Even her own staff in the minstery bureau. Apparently it’s corruption but somehow a legal one. They caught her getting sms messages with the text for a new law nailing the new gas generators. Writen by power companies. Still she’s staying.
My take: the government will throw money on the problem to solve it. Not brain and a vision. So, we’ll get gas generators that work for 2-4years and then taken over by batteries. And they’ll raise the taxes because of out of money. It’s a pity, people want the power transformation and right-wing policies hinder it and raise the costs.
Meanwhile I’ll install a PV and batteries in my house to lower my energy costs.
I‘m German. Sometimes in my childhood I asked myself how could that happen. I asked myself when reading and watching about Hitler and Nazis. Why didn’t people stopped the craziness? Why were just a few standing up against the Nazis? Why were no masses on the street expressing their displeasure?
Today I know why. What I read today about the US reminds on the rise of Nazis in Germany. I hope for you dear US friends that you‘ll find a way out of this mess.
It’s safe up to 800W power. Beyond that still safe - if you have new cables/ a newer house. Old houses typically have tiny cables built into the walls. That was the reason for the limitation.
Sure. Zendure, Ecoflow, Anker, Growatt are some brands. Take care not get stuck in this rabbit hole ;-)
They are somehow the same. I bought Zendure Solar Flow Pro as it can get connected through local wifi to my smart meter (Shelly 3EM) and you don’t need an app or cloud. It can run offline. With the smart meter I can control the Zendure when to send how much power and when to store it. If you aren‘t connected to a smart meter it will always feed into the home grid.
I recommend to buy a battery including an inverter as one device. You can attach up to 4 PV panels with 2kw at all (German laws). You plug it into your home power grid through a standard power plug. Same as you would plug a light but it feeds power.
Costs for 1,6kw battery with inverter, 2 panels with 900w, cables and fixturew are 700€. Altough prices increase slightly with spring ;) I produce around 1,20€ worth power each day. On average and including cloudy winter days, I assume 1€ a day = 365*1€ *2 years. Payback under 2 years
And half of this great story is a grassroot story. Private solar counts for a huge share of overall power. And currently most of installed battery storages.
For Non-Germans: Our utility companies try for ages to stop or at least slow the power generation transformation. It reduces their customers quite strongly and those companies are very intervened with politics unfortunately. However, the citizens grass root can‘t be stoped anymore.
The new chapter in this book is: Small Balcony PV‘s. It gives even rented appartments the opportunity to harvest sun energy and reduce the power bill. Great payback with under two years. I love mine.
That’s were I started to get a big friends base in my neighborhood. Visit friends, play some games together, and copy floppy disks.
I loved those starter pics and animations of the hacker groups.
Tbh this video has poor arguments: