These are excellent for off-grid uses, such as solar water heating, wind pumps on farms, and small electricity supply for households.The sun never makes electricity when it is most needed – on winter evenings just after sunset.Both are staggeringly expensive and hopelessly unreliable.This comes from REIPPPP – the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Program.
The average price it is forced to pay for renewable electricity is 222 cents/kWh – over double its selling price. They include the back-up generators; the extra costs incurred by these generators ramping up and down to match the renewables and so using more fuel and incurring more stresses; spinning reserve ; storage; extra transmission lines; and increased shut-downs caused by the renewables.
Week by week the greens tell us the price of renewable energy is coming down but all around the world the cost of renewable energy is going up.The system costs are ignored by green energy modelers. Australia, like us, used to get most of her electricity from coal. Prices to consumers came down and down.
What utter b/s! I can assure you that '... the sun never makes electricity when it is most needed – on winter evenings just after sunset' is complete nonsense. What did you get in return for this piece of Eskom propaganda, a bag of coal?
Misleading. For now solar is expensive. It does work well as a back up. It also works well in small community networks like residential buildings and office suites. Presently it is used extensively in residential communities in New York. It can work for us.
Long term very cheap..no labour involved dear.
This ‘article’ is full of inaccuracies - a good example of how an opinion piece can be percieved as accurate reporting chrisyelland
BonganiNtuli what would our friend say to this
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