Conventional wisdom in the energy transition has long held that public investment should be directed toward utility-scale projects, because they\u2019re cheaper than rooftop solar systems, kilowatt for kilowatt. Being cheaper, utility-scale systems would clearly deliver more bang for the buck.<\/p>\n
Our returning guest in this episode, energy modeler Christopher Clack, says according to his recent modeling, the opposite is actually true \u2014 that investing more into local solar will deliver more<\/em> public benefits than investing in utility-scale projects. And even more surprisingly, he says that building rooftop solar and distributed storage systems will actually result in more utility-scale solar as well, plus bring greater societal benefits such as more jobs, increased economic development, increased resilience, and more equitable access to the benefits of renewables. By modeling a dizzying set of factors simultaneously, Clack is able to show that combining many factors leads to synergistic effects that have been heretofore undiscovered in the literature\u2026 factors that we will attempt to describe in this extremely deep dive into energy modeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since utility-scale solar costs less than rooftop solar, shouldn\u2019t we invest more in utility-scale? Our guest in this episode says no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[233,137,641,64,115,45],"class_list":["post-2839","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-batteries","tag-offshore-wind","tag-rooftop-solar","tag-solar","tag-storage","tag-wind","xen_guests-christopher-clack"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n