Assist in creating a DIY Guide to Installing Grid Tied Solar on your Home.

[DougSpindler]

The power company and Cisco I thought gave an excellent presentation on solar and the history of power companies in the US whihc lead to the developvment of the grid.

https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/shared/solar/solareducation/pv_basics.pdf

Not sure why you think solar power is reliable?  We all know it's not and neither is wind.

I have to say the most reliable souce of electricty for us in California has been PG&E.  Can't remember that last time we were without power from PG&E.

[metrologist]

The power company and Cisco I thought gave an excellent presentation on solar and the history of power companies in the US whihc lead to the developvment of the grid.

https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/shared/solar/solareducation/pv_basics.pdf

Not sure why you think solar power is reliable?  We all know it's not and neither is wind.

I have to say the most reliable souce of electricty for us in California has been PG&E.  Can't remember that last time we were without power from PG&E.

Oh, you mean like the other, unreliable power company you could be using...

I think solar is fairly reliable, at least within weather norms. It's not predictable day-to-day, but average solar energy should be fairly consistent and we should be able to generate reliable trends... That's does not seem much different than my PG&E experience (YMMV).

[DougSpindler]

The power company and Cisco I thought gave an excellent presentation on solar and the history of power companies in the US whihc lead to the developvment of the grid.

https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/shared/solar/solareducation/pv_basics.pdf

Not sure why you think solar power is reliable?  We all know it's not and neither is wind.

I have to say the most reliable souce of electricty for us in California has been PG&E.  Can't remember that last time we were without power from PG&E.

You have outages with PG&E?  I would say where I live we have greater that 99.99% uptime per year.  That's less that one hour of outage for an entire year.  And most of the times there is an outage it's because someone in a car hit a power pole.

Everyone's mileage varies.





Oh, you mean like the other, unreliable power company you could be using...

I think solar is fairly reliable, at least within weather norms. It's not predictable day-to-day, but average solar energy should be fairly consistent and we should be able to generate reliable trends... That's does not seem much different than my PG&E experience (YMMV).