Hacker News Reader

There are several allocation opportunities I could think of. You’re a local government considering some subsidies for rooftop solar initiatives. How much bang for your buck will you get? You’re a regional grid operator and have some estimates for rooftop solar adoption. How do you translate that into plans for future grid capacity needs? You’re a rooftop solar installation company. What neighborhoods do you send your mailers to?

View on HN

Perhaps those three different groups should just coordinate together, rather than individually using this data, and arriving at three different and possibly interfering conclusions.

Aside from that grid operators buy power from producers. They don't plan future capacity more than 72 hours in advance. If you're a producer with expensive power you won't sell much. If you're a producer with cheap power you will sell a lot. It's already a functioning market. Solar is a very small part of it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com