• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Great comments in here that understand the actual issues, instead of, ya’ know, the usual.

    Something I haven’t seen in the thread: Can someone address the costs of keeping the infrastructure maintained? Free power sounds great, but it can never be free. Entire industries must be paid to manufacture pylons, wire, transformers, substations, all that. Then there are the well paid employees who are our boots on the ground. (Heroes to me!)

    How is solar disrupting the infra costs?

    • swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      It’s called a connection fee that is levied whether or not you used any energy that month. Those fees will likely go up to make up for decreased energy distribution revenue.