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Old 05-06-2020, 05:49 PM   #78 (permalink)
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I know precisely what happens when too much solar comes on line its happening in at least one part of California.
But they have half of the nation's solar generation capacity.
The rest of the country is no where near California.
They are having this problem with localized places with less than 5% of homes having solar.
Nationwide on average it's about 0.5% of homes have solar. But divide that up between California and everyone else the numbers look more like 1.5% in California and closer to 0.2% everywhere else.

The absolute maximum number of homes that could have solar is only around 75 to 80%. Because you have to own your home, have pretty good credit, have a big enough roof that's suitable for solar and just those 3 things disqualify most people.
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