But is this true? And is too much solar a good thing? Let’s explore this further.
Solar is available only during the day, thus you still need to cater for energy during the night. This will normally be provided by other conventional plants (i.e coal, gas and hydro). This means that conventional plants are still needed even though solar is introduced into the system.
Alternatively, battery can also be used to store some of the solar energy for the night. However, this comes as an additional cost.
Battery technology is still new and expensive with a current price tag of RM5000/kW, compared with RM3000/kW for the typical cost of a gas plant. Not only are batteries for the power system costly, they can only be used for a limited time, depending on their type and design.
Facebook ads attacking a bill to expand rooftop solar in Michigan reference the failure of the electric grid in Texas. Clean energy groups have called the advertising campaign misleading and dishonest.
Credit Facebook Ad Library
Anyone scrolling Facebook in Michigan over the past week may have noticed ads attacking a new energy bill in the statehouse.
The proposed legislation would allow more people to put solar panels on their homes or businesses. It gets rid of a cap limiting how many solar installations can connect to the grid.
One of the ads reads, “Don’t let out-of-state special interests do to Michigan what they did to Texas.”
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Asia s largest Government-run medical college, Nagpur based Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) is set to go green with the deployment of solar power generation systems to meet its energy needs, reports
Economic Times.
Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA or MahaUrja) has started the tender process for the setting up of over 1,200-kilowatt solar power energy generation capacity at GMCH.
Under the project, rooftops of GMCH s ward nos 12, 13, 28, 32, and 33, the entire wing in the east side, MARD hostel, students hostels and nursing hostels will be equipped with solar panels. These would cover an area of 10,300 sq metre area and together produce 1,260 kilowatts of energy.
The new FiT for rooftop solar may be set at 5.3-5.8 US cents per kWh, instead of the 8.38 US cent that was applied to projects starting before the end of 2020.