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Research not who has the most capable or market ready technology, find out who is related to the politicians or where they have already invested.
My friend had no power for about half a day or so and they said a transformer blew.
Although not generally political, but political enough... Bill Gates is into SMR's. He's backing at least one company that I know of.
Yup I had my whole house generator installed professionally. No more extension cords.
Insufficient generation is only part of the problem. SMRs could replace the generation lost from retiring the nukes and fossil plants (only IF they are sited regionally near the retired plants because of wheeling / transmission shortfalls in New York State) but the transitioning to electric for vehicles, heating, hot water, cooking, etc will require brand new distribution and transmission equipment for the new capacity. That means new transmission towers, power cables, buried cables, power poles, switchgear, transformers, breakers, protection schemes, metering, linemen, etc. The demand for just the new (and replacement of the existing aging end of life) large power transformers may have lead times measured in a century.
We just had 3 heat pumps installed at a town building. 40 amps each. Then add in an electric water heater, electric stove, electric dryer. Some of those things you could be selective on running but if it’s real cold weather your generator could struggle just to run the heat. 40 amps at 240 volts is 9600 watts. Better have at least a 15k generator.
The electric water heaters that are on demand were 100 amps when I looked. That’s for a larger one but I have two kids and live in NYS so over the winter the temp rose is huge on the cold water and running a few appliances at once. The heat pump ones seem to produce very little hot water daily.
The electric water heaters that are on demand were 100 amps when I looked. That’s for a larger one but I have two kids and live in NYS so over the winter the temp rose is huge on the cold water and running a few appliances at once. The heat pump ones seem to produce very little hot water daily.
NY does not fit well with solar. If I remember correctly you were looking in to doing it a while back? Every calculator I have used tells me I’ll break even or lose money in 20-25 years by installing solar on my roof. Why would I do it? I get my energy costs will rise but there’s a huge risk of my solar shot breaking and being scammed since it seems most arrays do not perform as planned. Also I’m risking leaks on my roof as well with solar. I’ll roll the dice with energy costs with all those other variables.
