Welcome to snowy New England … Bad place for solar PV, right?

Posted on 20 March 2019 by ecoquant

And this is ISO-NE, who, as little as three years back were highly sceptical anything other than additional natural gas generation could supply the ever increasing electrical power needs of the region, particularly with the withdrawal of generation from oil, coal, and nuclear sources scheduled for the period.

Oh. So, perhaps, maybe, Professor Tony Seba nailed it right on all along. What a concept.

Welcome to New England. Bad place for solar PV, right? So why can’t you make it work, Texas, or South Carolina, or Florida, or Georgia, or North Carolina, or Arizona? What are you dumb or something?

Hat tip to SP Global for the original article.

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