Guest Post: Baseload power over solar

A guest post by I am Spartacus:

Both National and Labour are promising to make the installation of roof top solar easier, in the belief that doing so will help the electricity supply. 

It will and there’s something to be said for a dispersed system. However, it does not help on those days when there’s no sun there’s no wind, and everyone’s dinky little battery has run out of juice.

That’s when the grid takes over and supplies ALL the countries power requirements 

To cope you need good old fashioned base load power 

Here’s an Idea;

Instead of Average Joe spending $15,000 on solar cells for his house. He gives a $10,000 lump sum to the power producers.

The power producers deduct 4,500KWH from Joes bill every year for 15 years

After all, had Joe installed solar cells, that reduction in consumption would have cost the power producers anyway

Assuming a 2% rise per KWH each year over that 15 years Joe recovers that $10,000 in about 8 Years, and gets an effective rate of return of 9.2% over the 15 years

The producers mean time amas money sufficient to build actual power stations, lets say Geothermal Power Stations. 

I have run the modelling on AI, assuming the scheme up take is around 15 thousand a year, and over time 2, one hundred MW Geothermal station are built, each costing seven hundred million, then the producers, who still have negative equity for about 3 years, break even after 13 years, and are 4 billion better off 15 years later.

The country has genuine base load power that works on cold windless nights

The overall community cost per KWH has decreased by 50%

Theres no roof top furniture wearing out

Its transferable house to house

The country is better

Joe is Happy

You’re welcome