I understand why this is happening in Africa first — lack of infrastructure makes the solution much more competitive. But as prices fall, it seems that this might be cost competitive in other areas as well. Selfishly, I’d love to see this in the US! Any big issues that would prevent adoption in the US?
It's mostly politics stopping this in the US. But even with current political roadblocks to solar, it's an absolutely massive part of new builds for grid scale electricity generation:
Already in Germany people are putting solar on their roofs and batteries in their basements which makes them no longer need the grid 80+% of the time. With Sodium-Ion batteries this will go to 90+% at the same cost. It's happening pretty much everywhere.
>Any big issues that would prevent adoption in the US?
Lol is this sarcasm? America is back on the fossil fuel train baby! If you're a patriot, jump on board as we sink this ship! Solar panels are for soyboys and we eat beef out hur.
Joking aside, solar is so cheap that even without subsidies the US is installing more solar than anything else. Fossil fuels are dirty and expensive in comparison.
