Reply #3: They need incentives to install PV generation at homes and small businesses [View All]

...as a "distributed generation" renewable energy portfolio.

I cannot help but think that it would be cheaper to place photovoltaics on homes to meet demand during the afternoon peak hours than to finance natural gas or other peak generation plants. Those peak generation plants are expensive and deliver electricity at a cost that is a multiple of the base electricity rates. Photovoltaic generation can probably meet those prices right now.

Just tilt the arrays a little bit to the West.

The consumers in the Southern Co. are, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, have the highest consumption on electricity in the nation. It averages 1400 kW*hour/month. The national average is ~1000 kW*hour/month. Ohioans use ~900kW*hour/month on average.