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Different entities have different costs.

Depending on the installation, maintenance, and component costs of different parts of a system, it may end up making a lot of sense to massively downsize the grid and make most single family homes into islands.

Electrical grids are hugely expensive, and even if the raw cost of utility scale solar installs is lower than residential, the delivery is killer.




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