[LINK] Hold up your hands if you Like HT Transmission Lines - Was - solar plants

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Jan Whitaker
> Sent: Monday, 20 June 2011 11:50 AM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Hold up your hands if you Like HT 
> Transmission Lines - Was - solar plants
> 
> 
> At 10:28 AM 20/06/2011, Tom Koltai wrote:
> 
> >I make it only  $149,533,043,478 using this "Massive Project 
> concept" 
> >to deliver solar power to all of them.
> 
> Excuse my cynicism, but what would the power companies do then? 
> Without the moms and pops, they would only be supplying 
> manufacturing, which we know is not exactly a big money spinner and 
> would die completely over the increased charges to keep the ROI to 
> satisfy shareholders, blah blah blah. Has anyone examined the 
> election contributions from 'big power'?
> 


Err. No Jan, Solar Power can't be considered base load, therefore it is
only good for peak load.
Peak Load is 7:30 am to 9:00 am and 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

During the summer, Peak load (aircon) can extend from around midday
through to 6:00 pm.

At night of course, unfortunately there is very little solar power
generated.

Therefore all this does is cut our coal emissions by approximately
1/3rd.

The distributed solar panels on the roofs of mums and dads still get fed
into the grid and are charged back to you via the power companies.

However their cost of generated power goes down dramatically and their
carbon offset costs are also reduced.

A win win... (cough cough). OK a win for Clean air... Reduced respitory
illnesses, an extended lifespan for everyone and much cheaper
healthcare.

Yep, that's a win. I think the Health and Insurance lobby is at least as
large as the PowerGen lobby.

TomK