It’s because they’d be more expensive if decentralized; all of the extra equipment required to transform the output, step down voltage and such would need to be replaced with thousands (millions?) of smaller units that do the same thing at an individual home/building level, requiring a larger trained labour force to install/maintain/replace them.
Personally, I think that would be rad, but most people don’t care to learn enough to safely be power engineers and if you’re in a 2 year backlog to get your home solar sorted out after a hurricane, you’d probably wonder why they didn’t do it this way instead.
You’d save all that transmission cost. No need for high voltage DC at all 12-48 v dc systems are pretty safe. They’ve been putting them on boats for years. Couple that with the EU regulations for USB C and you’d have basically all electrical needs met minus climate control.
Fridges might have to be replaced, or just get a bunch of cheap inverters.
Whenever I see these installations, I can’t help but think I’d rather see panels all over the place and much more decentralized.
Kind of anywhere, but especially some place with the occasional flattening storm and to help reduce load and transmission costs when demand is high.
I don’t know though maybe it’s better to clump kinda dangerous things.
Either way, it’s literally a place to go soak up some sun, may as well make hay while the sun is shining.
I’d love to wander around a beachy place under some sort of solar installation to help with shade.
It’s because they’d be more expensive if decentralized; all of the extra equipment required to transform the output, step down voltage and such would need to be replaced with thousands (millions?) of smaller units that do the same thing at an individual home/building level, requiring a larger trained labour force to install/maintain/replace them.
Personally, I think that would be rad, but most people don’t care to learn enough to safely be power engineers and if you’re in a 2 year backlog to get your home solar sorted out after a hurricane, you’d probably wonder why they didn’t do it this way instead.
You’d save all that transmission cost. No need for high voltage DC at all 12-48 v dc systems are pretty safe. They’ve been putting them on boats for years. Couple that with the EU regulations for USB C and you’d have basically all electrical needs met minus climate control.
Fridges might have to be replaced, or just get a bunch of cheap inverters.
Yeah even have some fans going during peak production and some charging points