I think there is not enough economic pressure to force gov’t and public to rapidly switch to solar. The oil it still there, the oil infrastructure is still there, and it still works. At least I’m happy I have a solar heater on my roof, so the water is hot whenever the sun is shining.
Diligent_Rice6315 on
Corruption
Big_al_big_bed on
Cyprus is actually a world leader in the amount of solar thermal installations, so many of the rooftops already contain measures to harness the sun’s energy.
In addition as you mentioned Cyprus being a small island which is disconnected from any other grid makes it incredibly difficult to manage large amounts of energy suddenly flowing back into the grid. Electricity networks are just not designed for that, and with nowhere to dump the energy it could damage the infrastructure.
All new buildings in Cyprus do in fact mandate some PVs but if course it hasn’t been applied retroactively.
schweffrey on
I assume it boils down to the monopoly on power that we have here and the fact they want to milk everyone for as long as possible.
In reality surely they could sell solar panels & batteries as well as providing chargeable maintenance etc to retain some level of income. However I doubt this would ever make them as much money as the current model does, hence why they resist change.
erdeMxd on
we are stuck on imported oil. it makes no sense to pay this much when we have the perfect solution right above our head
Because the trauma of their grandparents has led to a generation of ostriches?…
Can_Bot on
Of course theres the existing business reasons, however another angle ofter forgotten about renewables is that currently many popular types cannot „form“ grids, so you would need fossil fuel energy anyway plus now you have all this energy that the grid needs to deal with.
One fix is to introduce battery or flywheel energy systems which need a lot of funds at once compared to just having each development also add a PV expense to the budget.
adamosmaki on
A combination of corruption (the undersea cable to Greece not going forward because someone might loose money ) , forward thinking ( EAC lack of energy storage solution ) and incompetence
f8alXeption on
the most simple answer is that eac is one of the most profitable orgs and they would never allowed such a situation.corruption is on another level..
Realliberal2028 on
Because we have functioning powerplants
bu_001 on
There are solutions to this. Building massive gas turbine with combined cycle in the same plant as the only other powergen engines is not the solution. There are very easy and cheaper solutions to what they have and it has always surprised me at how bad the power problem has been managed in this sun drenched country.
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because someone will lose money from oil
I think there is not enough economic pressure to force gov’t and public to rapidly switch to solar. The oil it still there, the oil infrastructure is still there, and it still works. At least I’m happy I have a solar heater on my roof, so the water is hot whenever the sun is shining.
Corruption
Cyprus is actually a world leader in the amount of solar thermal installations, so many of the rooftops already contain measures to harness the sun’s energy.
In addition as you mentioned Cyprus being a small island which is disconnected from any other grid makes it incredibly difficult to manage large amounts of energy suddenly flowing back into the grid. Electricity networks are just not designed for that, and with nowhere to dump the energy it could damage the infrastructure.
All new buildings in Cyprus do in fact mandate some PVs but if course it hasn’t been applied retroactively.
I assume it boils down to the monopoly on power that we have here and the fact they want to milk everyone for as long as possible.
In reality surely they could sell solar panels & batteries as well as providing chargeable maintenance etc to retain some level of income. However I doubt this would ever make them as much money as the current model does, hence why they resist change.
we are stuck on imported oil. it makes no sense to pay this much when we have the perfect solution right above our head
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Because the trauma of their grandparents has led to a generation of ostriches?…
Of course theres the existing business reasons, however another angle ofter forgotten about renewables is that currently many popular types cannot „form“ grids, so you would need fossil fuel energy anyway plus now you have all this energy that the grid needs to deal with.
One fix is to introduce battery or flywheel energy systems which need a lot of funds at once compared to just having each development also add a PV expense to the budget.
A combination of corruption (the undersea cable to Greece not going forward because someone might loose money ) , forward thinking ( EAC lack of energy storage solution ) and incompetence
the most simple answer is that eac is one of the most profitable orgs and they would never allowed such a situation.corruption is on another level..
Because we have functioning powerplants
There are solutions to this. Building massive gas turbine with combined cycle in the same plant as the only other powergen engines is not the solution. There are very easy and cheaper solutions to what they have and it has always surprised me at how bad the power problem has been managed in this sun drenched country.