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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (857332)	5/15/2015 3:19:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575876

Storage is very limited compared to production and usage. Hydro power provides a way to store energy (just don't release as much water, or potentially even pump some back up in to the reservoir) but remember in the scenario that was presented the reservoir was full. It happens some time. Even better, I could get a powerwall, buy juice at negative spots Only if you could buy wholesale, and even then its not that common (although it may become more common as solar and wind generation grows if no change is made to net metering and other requirements) Solar fast becoming least-cost option for US utilities Saying that is easy. Having it actually happen less so. including renewable portfolio standards (RPS), state tax credits and the tradable solar renewable energy credits Having someone else pay for it doesn't actually make it less expensive, it just means that you are not covering akk the the cost. But that is one way t could become the least cost option for utilities. Don't worry about real production costs, have the government increase cost for fossil fuels above the market rate, and decrease costs for solar below the real cost, and all the sudden solar might cost the utilities less (with taxpayers or cross subsidies from fossil fuels picking up the extra cost for solar) In the long run solar might actually become price competitive at real market rates without all that manipulation and interference, but it isn't now and won't be very soon, esp. when you consider that unreliable production is worth less.