Das politische Fall für die Solar auf dem Dach
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/opinion/political-case-rooftop-solar
Das politische Fall für die Solar auf dem Dach
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/opinion/political-case-rooftop-solar
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There is also some really exciting things coming on the horizon with multijunction solar (tandem solar) and battery technology 🙂
People don’t think of it much but Alberta and Saskatchewan are great places for this! 🙂
If you are able to have solar, battery setup, heat pump, and electrical charging part for an BEV at home you are cruising on savings 🙂
Every bit helps on the affordability crisis so many working families are facing.
Every community with a well field should cover it with solar and enough batteries to get it through peak times. It would save the community a fortune and lead to much cleaner power overall.
I would love for us as a country to encourage households to sell energy back to the grid and help to decentralise power generation. RIght now generating your own energy is just too expensive to do so for most.
I don’t understand why people are advocating for decentralization when it’s been traditionally seen as the most regressive utility model.
Ontario under the vision of Sir Adam Beck created the Commission (HEPCO) to strongarm all of Ontario’s hydroelectric assets under a single public banner. Ontario Hydro was before dissolution the continent’s largest single tier utility, arguably a fact which played a roll in the pressure to break up the entity by the North American regulator. Quebec Hydro, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and New York Power Authority (NYPA) all followed similar models and have maintained a largely price stable market for the last century.
De-centralization only benefits the segments of society with the capital to invest in on-site generation. It reduces customer base and shifts the cost to the remaining customers without the financial means to self-generate. It stifles business productivity by increasing base cost, disproportionate affects the poorest in society, and creates a grid with magnitudes more complexity than the existing.
Coming from the political left, the obsession with decentralization is particularly bizarre when power workers are disproportionately unionized labour. Public utility ownership has been a tenant of the Canadian left for decades.
Solar does have it’s use cases, but de-centralization largely does not for large portions of the country. ‚Power at Cost‘ is as valid a rally cry now as it was 100 years ago.