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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA (International Energy Agency) (from 2020)
(www.carbonbrief.org)
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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You can get devices which hook into your smart meter and measure energy usage, and optimise for that.
The reason you don't get much feedin anymore (unless you're a Virtual power plant, at times more power is needed), is because previously, people were just generating too much excess power during the day, and forcing non-renewables to turn on again at night (so it was pointless). Ideally, you should be trying to export 0kwh back to the grid