Annoying how #solarenergy is wasted in my town. We are one of the places with the MOST hours of sun per year (3296 hours/year) in #europe and the second autonomous community in #spain with the most solar radiation. And people still don’t want to use or even think about using #renewableenergy .
@LittleTimmy My bro moved to Spain a few months ago and he's definitely embracing the solar energy. He has to because his new home's rural enough that he's not connected to the electricity grid. ;) But he's recently bought some more panels and installed them. They're having a nice amount of power now with big batteries! I think they could easily survive 5 days of rainy weather, for example.
@LittleTimmy Yeah, they have a generator where you need uhm... I dunno which, diesel? Something like that. But that costs fuel. They used that for a while before they definitely moved there. Now it's a backup thing. :)
I have solar panels myself as well, it's great! Gas prices don't affect me as badly in combination with tihs and the heat pumps I recently installed as well. I don't have as many solar hours as Spain does, but it helps. :D
@trinsec yeah, that’s the most common thing to do when you live in more isolated areas. It’s a large initial investement, but it ends up paying for itself. Especially in this recent times, where energy prices are exorbitant