Solar farm: $1.16/watt. Rooftop: $4.20/watt. But the incentives are so mixed up we are doing the latter.
It's worse than that; The cost per watt is only half the story - you also need to look at the wholesale spot price, at the times when solar is generating power.
Solar farm: $1.16/watt. Rooftop: $4.20/watt. But the incentives are so mixed up we are doing the latter.
This post is misleading.
Solar farm: $1.16/watt. Rooftop: $4.20/watt. But the incentives are so mixed up we are doing the latter.
In the past utilities in Ca and Hawaii incentivized roof top solar by guarantee a price for electricity put into the grid.
It upset the rate structures, it was not economical for the utilities or the governments.
Please do not add text to what I say and then sow it as my words.In the past utilities in Ca and Hawaii incentivized roof top solar by guarantee a price for electricity put into the grid.
It upset the rate structures, it was not economical for the utilities or the governments.
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Australian state governments are reducing drastically the solar feed-in traffic rates as they are just too expensive to maintain.
https://www.esc.vic.gov.au/media-centre/how-can-feed-tariff-go-down-while-retail-prices-are-increasing#:~:text=The short answer is that,to lower feed in tariffs.