Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhen you include enough battery storage to keep your HVAC working without interruption, the price becomes extremely high.
Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhen you include enough battery storage to keep your HVAC working without interruption, the price becomes extremely high.
blazera@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Crazy thing about AC, its power draw lines up perfectly with solar production, you dont need much storage to run it.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is simply not accurate in south Texas. It’s 90 degrees at midnight with 80% humidity. You need a great deal of storage.
Also, the system needs to over-produce and store that excess energy during the day so you cam continue to run all night. If there is heavy cloud cover, you will be relying on that storage during the day as well.
blazera@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Im seeing lows in the 70s. If theres heavy cloud cover you wont need as much AC. Texas summers are ideal solar scenario
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where?! Austin?! Haha. Just stop. Our lows are in the high 80’s on a good day in the summer!
Also, you can’t just turn off your AC when there’s cloud cover and easily get your house cooled back down when the sun comes back out. It takes a great deal of energy and an over-powered HVAC system to cool a house quickly.
I’m not sure what you are doing right now. Like, is your goal to try to convince me, a resident of this place whi has tried for years to afford a solar system, to embrace a solar solution? I already want one. If you know of a vendor in south Texas that can install what’s needed to keep me and my family alive when the power goes out for the low prices you claim, please let me know who they are and I will call them! Until then, I will just have to make do with my 24kw Generac natural gas generator that can run everything when the power goes out.