Utah's National Park Electric Corridor.

pnichols wrote:
I'm not a fan of individual solar setups at personal residences. I'd rather see the grid still supplying the bulk of personal residence power - including EV charging - but with grid power becoming cheaper and cheaper as large solar and wind farms feeding the grid come on line more and more across the U.S.. IMHO, that's the most efficient way for non-fossil power to benefit the masses and Planet Earth -> use the huge grid system that is already in place but feed it with solar and wind generated energy. (My thouughts on solar and wind sourcing of power are assuming that nuclear fusion power is still a long way off, or impossible.)

My payback will be five years. That is a 20 percent return on my money. My best investment in quite a while.

I like the idea of distributed solar. Less need for transmission lines into the city or remote areas. My house was built with a 200 amp panel and all the infrastructure to support that power level. Add a battery to the mix and I could easily do fine with 20 or 30 amp service.

That would be 85 to 90 percent reduction in the infrastructure needed for my home. Or to say it another way that 200 amp service could support 8 to 10 homes instead of one. This would reduce grid costs that are currently more than half the cost of power in Southern California.