Is rooftop solar useless, or are people missing the fact that using the solar at other times means less hydro needs to be used and therefore becomes the storage for the dry year, or those few months...
Is rooftop solar useless, or are people missing the fact that using the solar at other times means less hydro needs to be used and therefore becomes the storage for the dry year, or those few months...
Solar will help conserve water for sure, but the issue is our lakes are too small, they don't actually store much water. So if it's not raining we still end up with a problem. This is why things like Lake Onslow got explored; from a conceptual/theoretical point of view, solar backed up by pumped hydro is absolutely marvellous
Is rooftop solar useless, or are people missing the fact that using the solar at other times means less hydro needs to be used and therefore becomes the storage for the dry year, or those few months...
I found this info from Rewiring Aotearoa interesting: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rewiring-aotearoa_who-woulda-thunk-it-when-theres-not-much-ugcPost-7231881946476208130-sn-9
Solar will help conserve water for sure, but the issue is our lakes are too small, they don't actually store much water. So if it's not raining we still end up with a problem. This is why things like Lake Onslow got explored; from a conceptual/theoretical point of view, solar backed up by pumped hydro is absolutely marvellous