/2022/08/renewable-ipp-to-build-largest-solar-project-in-alaska/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 /2022/08/renewable-ipp-to-build-largest-solar-project-in-alaska/#comment-139891 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:58:57 +0000 /?p=99569#comment-139891 What do you do for storage in the dark months?

]]> /2022/08/renewable-ipp-to-build-largest-solar-project-in-alaska/#comment-134158 Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:11:29 +0000 /?p=99569#comment-134158 Now hang on there, (I’ve) been told you can’t use solar PV in Alaska, it’s too far north. Yet here is a 8.5MW project going in. Apparently Renewable IPP didn’t get this memo. Folks seem to be disconnecting from actual physics and economic realities of overall energy costs. So, a small town in Alaska is using diesel generators to supply the town with energy 24/7. The town could be lucky and have a natural gas turbine with additional heat exchange that is more efficient to supply power to the town. But fuel costs are a commodity cost and may be cheap one month and (very) expensive the next month. Even with a few average sun hours a day and energy storage one can avoid using the fueled generation 24/7 and save the community several tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of fuel costs each year. In specific areas like Alaska, adding wind turbines and energy storage to the grid can offset fueled energy costs even more during the year.

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