Home solar power can increase, but when it became as much as 50% of population, the need to home energy storage will start to became very significative.
Right now we can put solar panels to generate the energy we consume by day and a extra to what we would consume by night, and sell to the energy company the extra energy from day and get credits to pay what we consume at night, since the extra energy from day it's directed to the grid and so to people which have not solar panels.
But if everyone would do that, get solar panels, the extra energy could not be redirected to other consumers and the entire credit system would fail, despite some could be directed to the industry.
Low battery prices are a key factor if we think about solar power rise as a huge energy source in the future.
Energy storage it's what we need if we think in solar power rise and became one of the main energy sources.
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I think the realistic numbers are the world can probably increase solar power generation 5x what it is now in 10 years.
So Germany might make 6 or 7% of their energy with solar in 10 years.
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