In Georgia we’re still below 1% electric power generation from solar,
and we can get to 20-30% with no new technology whatever.
Georgia Power’s nuke overruns are
already causing a reaction of still more distributed solar.
Yet even that good news gets the usual reaction:
“This is necessary but not sufficient: a breakthrough in energy storage technology is required.”
Which just ain’t so;
distributed rooftop solar alone is plenty to move Georgia way ahead.
That’s why
Edison Electric Institute calls distributed solar
a massively disruptive influence on the utilities’
century-old cozy baseload model.
What’s holding solar back is those same big utilities, who understandably
don’t want to change their long-time cash cow.
But they’re going to change, and pretty quickly.
People unfamiliar with the sunny south (which is most of the world south of, oh, Germany), still say things like this: Continue reading
