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Originally Posted by yads
Businesses need energy as well and use a lot of it.
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Right, but at home right now I am using about 0.1-0.2 KW/h; and my solar panels would be generating 10 times that amount of power; putting it into the grid at a time that is peak time. Get 100,000 other households doing the same thing, and you have an extra 100-200 megawatts of power available.
Obviously I don't have the electrical engineering background do design the whole system, but we have only been given one option.
The one thing I know for a fact is that there is a loss of power over distances; so why not build Enmax's power plants locally that would push 90% of the power onto the grid as opposed to the 60-70% we would get after it travels 100's of km?
The reason why places like Manitoba have major transmission lines is that is where the rivers are with hydro dams- up north.