Is solar power running into a grid problem?
posted on December 23, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Just what solar energy companies don’t need—what could be an emerging risk that the existing national electricity grid isn’t up to the task of getting solar-generated electricity to consumers.
First Solar’s (FSLR) December 22 cancellation of plans to build a 150-megawatt solar power plant in the high desert of Colorado points in that direction. In the company’s explanation for withdrawing its application to build the plant the company noted that it is reviewing all of its projects with an eye to factors like transmission capacity.
Could tranmission capacity–or the lack thereof–be emerging as the next bitg problem facing solar energy companies? Read more
