Reply #3: Spain is also going solar [View All]

[BeFree]

And they have nukes. So why is Spain investing in wind and solar generators if nukes are gonna save the world?

Face it, the reason we don't have more alternatives to fossil fuels is that the centralized operators, ie, the corporations making a profit on more and even more, don't see a profit from locally owned and individually operated power generating systems.

Solar and wind: since the greatest electric demand peaks at just two periods of the day, forcing power plants to produce at nearly demand level all the time - thereby wasting fuel, solar and wind could fill in that bump in demand allowing the big power companies to be able to run the big units at cruise capacity - saving fuel and reducing emmissions. Hydro does this already.

But doing that would lower profits at Con Ed, et al. That's why they don't want decentralized power generation. But Spain is cool with it?