Comments on: Cash-Strapped School Districts Look to Solar for Low Cost Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/04/cash-strapped-school-districts-look-to-solar-for-low-cost-energy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Matthew http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/04/cash-strapped-school-districts-look-to-solar-for-low-cost-energy/#comment-9599 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:48:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12163#comment-9599 And I bet the school systems can sell the energy they don’t need on weekends, holidays and when school isn’t in session back to the power grid. That should be a powerful win win situation.

]]> By: Dave B http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/04/cash-strapped-school-districts-look-to-solar-for-low-cost-energy/#comment-9598 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:50:33 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12163#comment-9598 “the buildings are in use mainly during daylight hours, alleviating the need to provide for storage”.

No, there is plenty of “storage” on the grid assuming that the school is currently connected to the grid, which of course, most are.

Typically only log cabins in the wilderness still use battery storage.

Urban structures like schools would just send surplus to the grid, and get credited by their regular utility for providing power, and that reduces (or eliminates) their current utility electric bill, (depending on whether they knock out only a portion or the entire 100% of their kwh needs).

Most schools have more than enough roof space to knock out 100%.

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