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RE: The Most Powerful Solar Panel In the World

in #teammalaysia7 years ago (edited)

Is solar power + battery system financially feasible to support any household to go off-grid? - @kimzwarch

No.

If you receive a monthly bill of RM 200, for example, your home consumes about 500 kWh per month.

For this house, it'll probably cost you RM 50,000 to go completely off-grid. In other words, it's like paying 20 years of electricity bills in advance to go off-grid.

I believe the solution is:

(1) Firstly, do not do it alone. We do it together. All of us generate solar electricity. We use the electricity we produce on our own first and because our consumption patterns are all different, our neighbors might have excess we could buy from or vice versa, we have extra we can sell.

(2) Incentivise. When the incentive is strong enough, only then would people go out of their way to overcome the price barrier so that they can maximize their profit.