A thought I had last night, the usual government thinking goes new tech is good for the environment, we'll subsidise it, until such a point as it's adopted and cheaper, then we'll stop.
Then there's solar panels. That thought process has been applied, EXCEPT, we have a grid that is geared up for pouring huge amounts of energy in at single points and then trickling it out in ever decreasing "branches" to points of consumption. Consequently, our grid is equally suited to micro-generation. 1/2
With micro-generation you have small producers of energy pushing 3 or 4 kW back INTO the grid at the end of these puny "branches", and all the grid infrastructure in place to have excess shipped back to huge storage facilities where we currently have power stations.
So the clever grid strategy would be CONTINUE subsidising micro-generation (mostly solar panels) because it's a mode of operating that's clean and fits our current grid. We WANT people to invest in solar panels. 2/2 #electrification
Greg Harvey 🌍