I really don't understand your point. Are you talking about Hong Kong or China or just "anywhere"? Because this is country specific. In most countries with privatised power systems, developers are building renewables. In Philippines for example, utility scale solar is now competing with other forms of power in tenders for new supply. No subsidies required.
Office buildings are terrible places to put solar. Poor roof area to demand ratio and the roof is already full of other utilities. Factories (owner occupied) are already putting solar on the roof all over the world.
In most places the Government should be doing NOTHING OTHER THAN GETTING OUT OF THE WAY. Economics will do the rest.
I said private should be pushed.
I can see in some developing countries the state may need to step in while the energy markets develop but Governments are rarely good at running things as efficiently as the private sector.
The grid should probably be nationalised but every effort should be made to decentralise to the private sector power generation, storage and billing.
Corrected it for you.
My argument is week as what I advocate is happening generally except the requirements for building level energy storage and/ or peak time power management tools. Such a huge solar power station as posted at the start looks like a trophy project but I may be completely wrong.
Last edited by East_coast; 23-07-2019 at 12:56 PM.
Yes. You are completely wrong.
The point of an electricity grid is that it is exactly that, a grid. There is NO NEED WHATSOEVER for offices to install storage or any other kind of power management service. They are entirely entitled to make use of the existing infrastructure. It's totally daft (and very inefficient) for every Tom Dick and Harry to install solar or batteries when large scale, coordinated and well connected power companies can do it instead. Mostly the push for solar on rooftops is driven by populism not economics. There are some examples now of where it makes sense (now that prices have fallen). Much of what has been installed historically is just a waste of money.
And there is this project... not sure how real it is, but makes sense if they could build the underwater infrastructure.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/au...r-up-spore-tooThe farm would generate 10 gigawatts of power and transmit 3 gigawatts via a high-voltage submarine direct-current cable to Singapore.