Solar PV: Is Bigger Better?
We’ve all had the thought: What are the relative merits of utility-scale solar PV vs. the distributed, rooftop version?
To be sure, there are numerous factors to be considered. In terms of the levelized cost of energy for each kWh, no one doubts that the utilities can afford to build (or buy) power at a scale that is unachievable at the local level. But what about the value to the local economy? The cost of power transmission lines? The further entrenchment of monopolistic interests over those of the individual?
IMO, the author does a good job in the article linked above.
Last Tuesday saw the passing of novelist E. L. Doctorow at age 84 (pictured). I had written about him a couple times, as I was always tickled by what he said one time about his writing routine: “Here’s how it goes: I’m up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it’s lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it’s time to have a drink.”
