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Most of The World Could Be 100% Powered With Renewables by 2050

Bergslagstroll said:
Percent of income Danish housholds spend on electricity is a bit less than the percent of income American households spend on electricity.

Electricity Prices in Europe - Who pays the most? [2010 - 2017]

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Also bothe Denmark and Australia rank higher than US on the best country for business list.

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And these matter... Why? How about the other factors that affect these, or are they an inconvenient truth? You can most certainly expect the USA to start climbing back up since business taxes have decreased.

What did yo do, just grab the fist data that looked good, or did some blogger show this unrelated data to you?
 
Media_Truth said:
Yeah we've been through this before. After hearing your radicalism, I take the outlook that the Utility should pay the retail rate for every Kilowatt hour that netmering customers generate. And they should only be able to charge the wholesale rate for any netmetering customers who purchase power.
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And that outlook would lead to the utility not existing for anyone!
 
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Jack Hays said:
‘That will have to change if B.C. is to pursue its CleanBC plans,’ says head of Clean Energy B.C. Randy Shore Updated: February 14, 2019 The wheels are coming off and Big Green isn’t happy~ctm From The Vancouver Sun Dozens of solar, wind and run-of-river power projects have been indefinitely suspended by the provincial government…[/FONT]
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No real surprise, any accountant could tell them that their plan was untenable with any volume of growth.
Generating your own electricity
So let's see, small generators (up to 100KW) can do a 1:1 net metering, receiving a 1 Kwh credit for each 1 Kwh put into the grid.
At the end of the year if the total in is greater than zero, they get a check for 9.99 Cents per Kwh of surplus.
So how could this cause residential electrical rates to increase.
Here is what BC hydro charges for electricity.
Residential Rates
$0.0884 per kWh for first 1,350 kWh in an average two month billing period (22.1918 kWh per day).

If they are selling electricity for $0.0884 per kWh, then that cost of goods sold for that electricity must be less than that,
but if they are giving home generator a credit of $0.0884 per kWh, then all of the overhead uplift disappears.
If enough people do this, then the total cost will increase, which will force the end user prices to increase.
but when the end users prices increase, so does the credit given to the home generators credit price.
This does not end well!
 
longview said:
And that outlook would lead to the utility not existing for anyone!
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Those poor Utilities. Aren't the CEOs going to get their mega-bonuses? I suppose it's up to those who have spent tens of thousands of dollars on renewable systems to pay more, so that they can guarantee that Electrical Utilities generate rich profits?
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Percent of income Danish housholds spend on electricity is a bit less than the percent of income American households spend on electricity.

Electricity Prices in Europe - Who pays the most? [2010 - 2017]

Percentage of Household Income Spent on Electricity by State – Electric Choice

Also bothe Denmark and Australia rank higher than US on the best country for business list.

Best Countries for Business List
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I ignore these 'best' lists. They are utterly useless.

Comparing electric bills is also useless. It doesn't include that taxes you have to pay to reduce the bill, and it ignores the resource to demand ratio in different areas.
 
Jack Hays said:
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So much for the dream and the smug pride in 'going green'.
 
Media_Truth said:
Those poor Utilities. Aren't the CEOs going to get their mega-bonuses? I suppose it's up to those who have spent tens of thousands of dollars on renewable systems to pay more, so that they can guarantee that Electrical Utilities generate rich profits?
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You are missing the point, how well would your system meet your energy needs without a grid to pick up the slack?
Could your system as it stands start a large air conditioner, or would you need a battery bank and a much larger inverter?
 
Threegoofs said:
Is it time to listen to Bill Gates?

I’m guessing you and the GWPF deniers wouldn’t like to hear what he says about AGW.
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Bill Gates' opinions certainly make interesting reading. A recent post on the topic from his own blog:

Climate change and the 75% problem

"Quick: Think of some inventions that help fight climate change.

What came to mind first? I bet you thought of solar panels and wind turbines. In my experience, that’s what people point to when they think about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

They’re not wrong. Renewables are getting cheaper and many countries are committing to rely more on them and less on fossil fuels for their electricity needs. That’s good news, at least in places that get a lot of sunlight or wind. Everyone who cares about climate change should hope we continue to de-carbonize the way we generate electricity.

I wish that were enough to solve the problem. Unfortunately, it isn’t.

Making electricity is responsible for only 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year. So even if we could generate all the electricity we need without emitting a single molecule of greenhouse gases (which we’re a long way from doing), we would cut total emissions by just a quarter.

To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we need to get to zero net greenhouse gas emissions in every sector of the economy within 50 years—and as the IPCC recently found, we need to be on a path to doing it in the next 10 years. That means dealing with electricity, and the other 75% too."
 
Surface Detail said:
Bill Gates' opinions certainly make interesting reading. A recent post on the topic from his own blog:

Climate change and the 75% problem

"Quick: Think of some inventions that help fight climate change.

What came to mind first? I bet you thought of solar panels and wind turbines. In my experience, that’s what people point to when they think about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

They’re not wrong. Renewables are getting cheaper and many countries are committing to rely more on them and less on fossil fuels for their electricity needs. That’s good news, at least in places that get a lot of sunlight or wind. Everyone who cares about climate change should hope we continue to de-carbonize the way we generate electricity.

I wish that were enough to solve the problem. Unfortunately, it isn’t.

Making electricity is responsible for only 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year. So even if we could generate all the electricity we need without emitting a single molecule of greenhouse gases (which we’re a long way from doing), we would cut total emissions by just a quarter.

To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we need to get to zero net greenhouse gas emissions in every sector of the economy within 50 years—and as the IPCC recently found, we need to be on a path to doing it in the next 10 years. That means dealing with electricity, and the other 75% too."
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The inescapable conclusion is nuclear power.
 
Lord of Planar said:
It's the most reliable.
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It depends how you define reliability. Some of the biggest headaches in the UK power supply system are caused by the sudden loss of nuclear power generation as a result of breakdowns. At least power generation from renewables varies in a more gradual and predictable manner.

Also, nuclear power requires very large capital expenditure and decommissioning costs. Not to mention the risk of accidents. As far as I am aware, these factors have always made nuclear power plants too much of a risk for private companies to finance; they always need to be underwritten with government guarantees. That's hardly an indication of financial sustainability.

I would agree that nuclear power remains essential for the short to medium term as renewable capacity is developed. I doubt that nuclear generation has a long term future, though, unless some radical new technologies are developed to make it more financially viable.
 
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[COLOR="#000080"]As I keep saying, I'm working on it...

If anybody wants to donate $150k so I can not do plumbing and thus get it to start much sooner please PM me...

Or if anybody is a business type who can run a business as I think I will make several mystakes in my first go at it and thus might just kill it also PM me...
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[h=2]Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia, rising 50% pa as electricity prices rocket[/h]
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Afew Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign to spread the word.
In one corner are 2 million households which have solar PV and thought they paid for it themselves. In the other corner are 7.5 million households which have exorbitant electricity bills. And in every corner and all across the spectrum is mass confusion thanks to the mass media. The fog of advertisements disguised as “news” means if you ask a dumb-enough-question 70% of Australians will say they want the government to set a high RET target to make electricity cheaper. It’s almost like 2 out of 3 people think we need the government to force us to buy cheap stuff, because everyone would buy the “expensive” planet killing volts if we only had the choice. Doh.
[h=4]That’s $200 per household (and the rest!) added to the electricity bill in 2019[/h]This is just the direct SRES (Small Renewable Energy Scheme) cost. It doesn’t cover the burden of stabilizing the grid, of covering the cost of baseload power sitting around wait for when solar users need it. Unreliable power makes the whole system less efficient, costs go up and all the cheap electricity generators have to charge higher prices too (at least, the ones it doesn’t drive out of business). Then there are the price spikes — so wild they make these subsidies look cheap. . . .
 
Jack Hays said:
[h=2]Solar subsidy death spiral: $2 billion in Australia, rising 50% pa as electricity prices rocket[/h]
solar-panels-ulleo-m.jpg

Afew Australians are just beginning to realize that they are paying for their neighbours solar panel. As news spreads, the shine of good-citizen-solar is going to tarnish fast, but it is going to take a concerted campaign to spread the word.
In one corner are 2 million households which have solar PV and thought they paid for it themselves. In the other corner are 7.5 million households which have exorbitant electricity bills. And in every corner and all across the spectrum is mass confusion thanks to the mass media. The fog of advertisements disguised as “news” means if you ask a dumb-enough-question 70% of Australians will say they want the government to set a high RET target to make electricity cheaper. It’s almost like 2 out of 3 people think we need the government to force us to buy cheap stuff, because everyone would buy the “expensive” planet killing volts if we only had the choice. Doh.
[h=4]That’s $200 per household (and the rest!) added to the electricity bill in 2019[/h]This is just the direct SRES (Small Renewable Energy Scheme) cost. It doesn’t cover the burden of stabilizing the grid, of covering the cost of baseload power sitting around wait for when solar users need it. Unreliable power makes the whole system less efficient, costs go up and all the cheap electricity generators have to charge higher prices too (at least, the ones it doesn’t drive out of business). Then there are the price spikes — so wild they make these subsidies look cheap. . . .
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The feed in tariffs, like net metering was always an untenable position.
Any accountant can tell you that if you increase the cost of goods sold of a product, the price increase must be reflected somewhere else.
Most utilities are non profits, and so their operational cost are the difference between what electricity cost them, and what they sell it for.
In the solar world, the Utility was required to pay retail or higher for the surplus electricity, this pushes up the what they pay for some amount of what they buy.
 
longview said:
Most utilities are non profits...
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Which country are you referring to? In the UK, at least, the utilities were privatised long ago and are run as private companies, for profit. I'm fairly sure that the same is true for Australia.
 
Surface Detail said:
Which country are you referring to? In the UK, at least, the utilities were privatised long ago and are run as private companies, for profit. I'm fairly sure that the same is true for Australia.
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In the US, most of the utilities are/were granted a geographical monopoly, but were non profit.
Recently that changed a bit in Texas, the utilities control their portions of the grid, and the providers
basically pay for moving electricity across the grid.
Ether way public utilities usually have commissions which oversee that they are treating their customers fairly,
since in most places there is only one provider.
 
longview said:
In the US, most of the utilities are/were granted a geographical monopoly, but were non profit.
Recently that changed a bit in Texas, the utilities control their portions of the grid, and the providers
basically pay for moving electricity across the grid.
Ether way public utilities usually have commissions which oversee that they are treating their customers fairly,
since in most places there is only one provider.
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So are utilities in the US run for profit or not? Can you, for example, buy shares in them?
 
Surface Detail said:
So are utilities in the US run for profit or not? Can you, for example, buy shares in them?
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some are, even the non profit one have stock, but it misses the point,
that feed in tariffs, and net metering plans were always an untenable position.
If a utility is making money for profit or simply to cover their cost of operations,
is irrelevant. What matters is if they are forced to pay more for that which they sell than they otherwise would.
Why this is a problem is that it is limiting the growth of solar, which we actually need a lot of growth in the home solar sector.
 
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