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Top U.S. Utilities Grow Solar Power Despite Recession

Heat has nothing to do with solar panels. In fact it derates some PV technologies by close to 30%. Some industrial scale applications suffering from heat derating actually use water cooling loops to help keep the panels more productive.

On May 31 06:22 PM crosscreek wrote:

> There is enough desert and heat in Texas to put up solar panels.
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Top U.S. Utilities Grow Solar Power Despite Recession

Powering a residential home with a typical 3 kWp PV system will triple the electric bill. The true cost of residential elec. is $0.11/kWhr. Higher rates are just part of the new national wealth redistribution plan. The green movement is organized to hide these facts. The gov. offers about 1/3 subsidy at the expense of tax payers, the utilities are charging 200% the honest rate for residential elec. in many markets. Add it all up and you can mislead people into the benefits of residential PV: Residential PV costs about $0.30/kWhr and if gov subsidized a third, home owner pays around $0.20/kWhr. Electric rate is doubled from $0.11/kWhr to $0.22/kWhr and voila you have people conned into volunteering to triple their elec. rate. Remember we all pay that gov subsidized 30% eventually. Actually it will burden poorer people who can't pony up for their own PV alot more than the wealthier who do get to cash in on the subsidy.