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Posted 07 March 2018 - 01:25 PM

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) says,
. . . Community-Scale Solar (CSS), sits in an economic sweet spot,
. . . large enough to access low costs through economies of scale, and
. . . small enough to efficiently interconnect into distribution systems.

0.5 megawatt (MW) to 5 MW per installation,
. . . interconnected to distribution networks, and
. . . sited directly within the neighborhoods they serve,
. . . cooperatives can leverage local connections to facilitate the development process,
. . . further reducing costs.

“In demonstrating the ability to already today deliver clean energy at or below
. . . 4.5 to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour on the distribution grid,
. . . CSS can be the ‘killer app’ for cooperatives, supplying a:
. . . . . . cost-competitive,
. . . . . . locally sourced,
. . . . . . clean energy resource, that also provides
. . . . . . resilience benefits to their members.”

3-7-2018 Source:  Community-Scale #Solar

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