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I seem to remember that in CA, setting your house up to be partially
off-grid (your "cogeneration" efforts run the meter backward) involves
an odd pricing scheme where your peak hour use actually costs more
than it would if you actually did not have the setup. I believe
the purpose of that is to smooth out any sudden popularity of cogeneration,
which would make it more difficult for the utility to plan future
capacity, as well as encourage only people who were serious about
maintaining their equipment to take the plunge.
This looks economically feasible (at least) for smaller remote communities
that would otherwise have to pay big bux to get their collective line
capacity increased.
Another thought is to model community (peer) microturbine networks. For
example,
what would be the right match of microturbine size to number of households?
What would be a good group size for locally interconnected microturbines?
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Score one for small-scale distributed power
This reminds me of the Palo Alto, CA subsidy for solar panels. The
city, county, state subsidies were impressive enough that most folks
working on their houses took seriously converting to solar.
Are there subsidies like that here?
Sorta like shared WiFi, it might be nifty for some of us to have
interesting new power supplements .. probably solar. Is anyone looking
into alternatives for their home?
On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 09:15 PM, Bruce Sawhill wrote:
> I think there's enough wood for a few hundred MW for about 50 years in
> the intermountain West. Hopefully by then the forests will be thinner
> and we'll have Mr. Fusion, or at least Mr. Wind and Mrs. Solar. I
> think clean burning microturbines exist now.
>
> Bruce\
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