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Originally Posted by ImGod
Another good reason for businesses to generate their own electricity is to stay up and running after natural disasters. Most of the time, power outages are grid related. The more damage to the grid the longer the outage. If you aren't relying on it, you keep running.
Hurricanes, wild fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc all have similar affects on businesses. Without power, most businesses have to shut down completely.
Distributed generation capabilities turn the grid into millions of point sources for power supply.
http://www.usgbc.org/articles/buildi...perstorm-sandy Number 3 on this list is really important. |
Indeed! The idea that it can't be done is being systematically destroyed by primary evidence.
KW25*|*Solar PV, wind reach 60% of mid-day German electricity output on June 16th*-*SolarServer
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Between 2 PM and 3 PM on June 16th, the output from PV plants reached 20.3 GW, while wind turbines supplied 9.3 GW, for a total of 29.6 GW. This represented 61% of the 48.5 GW of total generation during this hour. Coal, gas, nuclear and oil generation comprised only 18.9 GW during the hour.
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That's gigawatts, motherfuckers!
