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Originally Posted by SR71
Here is a  for any but the staunchest alt-e fanboy. They really get at the heart of the matter. The alt players are looking less like helpless little bunnies and more like hungry stalking wolves.
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Rooftop solar panels are good for buildings 1 or 2 stories high, but not much more than that, because there will be too many electricity users per unit roof area. So rooftop solar panels' competition with electric-power companies will be somewhat limited.
Other forms of renewable energy generation are more friendly to the traditional business models of electric companies, because they involve more centralized generation and generation away from the customers. Wind turbines are an obvious one, since the successes with them have been obtained with very large ones, and since they have to be located in very windy areas.
So for these two reasons, there will still be a place for such companies.