"David Crane and Robert F.Kennedy Jr. write in the NY Times that with residents of New Jersey and New York subsistence through three major storms in the past 16 months and suffering sustained blackouts, we need to ask whether it is really sensible to power the 21st century by using an aged and vulnerable method of copper wires and wooden poles. Some have taken matters into their admit hands, purchasing portable gas-powered generators to give themselves varying degrees of grid independence.
But these dirty, loud and costly devices have no subsidy outside of a power failure and there is a improve demeanor to secure grid independence for our homes and businesses: electricity-producing photovoltaic panels installed on houses, warehouses and over parking lots, wired so that they rescue power when the grid fails. 'Solar panels have dropped in order by 80 percent in the past five years and can provide electricity at a expense that is at or below the rife retail order of grid power in 20 states, including many of the Northeast states,' write Crane and Kennedy. 'So why isn't there more of a shove for this trim, affordable, safe and inexhaustible inception of electricity?' First, the investor-owned utilities that reliance on the existing method for their profits have tiny economic interest in promoting a technology that empowers customers to generate their acknowledge power. Second, country regulatory agencies and local governments impose burdensome permitting and siting requirements that unnecessarily cop installation costs. While it can take as little as eight days to license and install a solar demeanor on a house in Germany, in the United States, depending upon your state, the medium ranges from 120 to 180 days."
But these dirty, loud and costly devices have no subsidy outside of a power failure and there is a improve demeanor to secure grid independence for our homes and businesses: electricity-producing photovoltaic panels installed on houses, warehouses and over parking lots, wired so that they rescue power when the grid fails. 'Solar panels have dropped in order by 80 percent in the past five years and can provide electricity at a expense that is at or below the rife retail order of grid power in 20 states, including many of the Northeast states,' write Crane and Kennedy. 'So why isn't there more of a shove for this trim, affordable, safe and inexhaustible inception of electricity?' First, the investor-owned utilities that reliance on the existing method for their profits have tiny economic interest in promoting a technology that empowers customers to generate their acknowledge power. Second, country regulatory agencies and local governments impose burdensome permitting and siting requirements that unnecessarily cop installation costs. While it can take as little as eight days to license and install a solar demeanor on a house in Germany, in the United States, depending upon your state, the medium ranges from 120 to 180 days."
