Comments on: New interconnection ruling in California should get more solar connected to grid more quickly https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/06/new-interconnection-ruling-in-california-should-get-more-solar-connected-to-grid-more-quickly/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:52:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/06/new-interconnection-ruling-in-california-should-get-more-solar-connected-to-grid-more-quickly/#comment-131488 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:52:46 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=98998#comment-131488 I can see the so called ICA ‘method’ would allow residential solar PV with ESS to become a defacto quick turn around project. Yet, look at what PG&E is “finally” doing with their grid services. Undergrounding 10,000 miles of electricity feeds, getting rid of feeds into wilderness areas and constructing micro-grids in these high fire risk areas. The ability of any electric utility to “recable” an old transmission path with superior conductors could change the ICA substantially. A moving target with moving variables.

There seems a study looking at the overall grid from the residential back to the transmission system has not been attempted. Where does the grid start ‘hurting’ at what number of homes in a service area with solar PV feeding into the grid become a loading problem for the grid? IF overall, the U.S. gets to 45% of residences across the U.S. have solar PV that is grid tied, does this affect the grid negatively or not? The guy Mark Jacobson has pundited one can use solar PV and wind generation in a (well interconnected) national grid as the sun and wind currents flow across the Continent every day. Digitization of the grid and proper regional very large energy storage facilities across the U.S. would make the day ahead energy market possible without fueled generation.

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