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Old 06-19-2018, 09:01 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Well shoot, they should be paying me to put the thing in then.

If the cheapest option is $700 per kWh, then supplemental power from battery storage might be economically viable now. Tesla claims a cost of $190 per kWh of battery capacity. You could get 3.5 hours of battery runtime for that $700.
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