[quote=The-Shoveler]
But that said, utility companies are starting to panic over rooftop solar (and companies like WalMart) cutting into their revenue.[/quote]
Well yeah because power companies have to build expensive natural gas turbine peaker plants to provide electricity when the sun isn’t shining. Or are you ok with rolling blackouts and brown outs during the evening hours and when the sun isn’t shining.
That’s the problem with solar it’s expensive to store in batteries and it’s expensive to build a power plant that is only used part of the time. The cost of the natural gas to fuel that reactor is cheap in the grand scheme of things. Building a 200MW reactor for a couple hundred million dollars to be turned on in an instant when the sun isn’t shining isn’t cheap. It means the cost of power is close to doubled. You had to buy all the solar panels and you had to buy the natural gas fired power plant to be a backup.
