Comments on: Solar Grid Parity in North Carolina (New Study)

By: Marcacci Communications

Marcacci Communications — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:13:33 +0000

[…] benefits and $2.56 billion in associated spending across the state’s economy. Unsurprisingly, solar power hit grid parity last year in several […]

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:42:00 +0000

Yes, another huge externality not accounted for. I generally don’t bring that in when discussing solar, since we don;t have a lot of EVs on the road yet, but maybe i should start adding yet another sentence or two to remind people of this.

By: electric38

electric38 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:45:00 +0000

Uhhh, military costs for oil price protection? Why overlook these hundreds of billions. Not to mention the mental anguish and current political embarrassment associated with this cost.

By: Mattpeffly

Mattpeffly — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Now if only the people producing these report would start adding a appendix. Call More likely life spans, and include charts for 25 year and 30 year lifespan. A 30years gives total generation of 150% of 20 years. Which drops the cost per watt by a third.

Guessing they also left out the likely raising cost of coal, the US will gets its act together one day and start charging for at least the health cost. Since they are such a large portion of the budget and drain on the economy.

I know it is a lot of variables to keep in your head. And a simple 2D line chart is easier to understand than a n-dimensional surface. But people need is a chart with a couple of sliders. PV life span (20-35), tax credit (0-30%), carbon “tax” (0-?), other. Then you could see how you can see the impact of some of the variables.