Over the past five years, around 50,000 solar and battery power systems have been installed on homes in Puerto Rico, says Chris Rauscher, senior director of public policy at Sunrun, the biggest residential solar company in the United States. And almost all that equipment appears to have continued supplying electricity while the island’s central power system went dark, according to market participants and industry observers.https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124283621/puerto-rico-is-in-…
Seems like a big advantage over the grid in places that get hit by big storms.
Seems like a big advantage over the grid in places that get hit by big storms.
Distributed is safer than centralized. In time renewables will make the grid safer and will make Americans more like their forefathers, self reliant – at least in energy.
Just read the METaR post these past few days, METaR is having a nervous breakdown.