Right, $200-300/kWh is more the range for ~16kWh residential stationary energy storage systems.

Net metering is gone in most of California (for new solar). I think it's going away in general. Distributed solar supports a more stable grid for everyone (per UL 1741-SB requirements).

the article is about Puerto Rico, not California, and specifically mentions net metering.

I think the poster’s point is that net metering is a tool to promote early adoption of solar, and (in at least one prominent example) when solar penetration becomes high enough for it to impact grid stability, larger grids have removed net metering. So to address GP poster’s point: net metering affecting grid stability in a substantial way is more a theoretical concern that’s already been addressed in one of the locations where it stopped being theoretical.

You can run sans grid with Enphase (with their "system controller").

tl;dr from the bottom of the blog post:

> Type-based grouping is great for tech-focused tasks, consistent naming, and large sweeping changes.

> Context/process-based grouping shines for domain clarity, team ownership, debugging, and mapping business problems directly to code.

A framework for Excel spreadsheets, written in Excel VBA. A nine-minute demo video is here: https://www.cabin.wtf (the file is 4mb, not 4kb)

If nothing else, this shows that the Excel UX can be radically changed thru one small Excel file... so much of the object model is exposed to VBA.

Reminds me of Emacs for Excel nerds. I like it! Do you plan to open-source it?

Thanks so much! I do plan to open-source it. ...Once it's tightened up. Please email me if you'd like to be on a beta list. mike at bishop dot wtf

I had no idea you could do stuff like that in excel.

Your comment made my day, thank you :)

We park on the other side of a city park from my daughter's school. ...The five minute walk thru the park together is a highlight of my day.

I came across shademap.app a ~month ago, and had a "the internet can be so awesome" moment. I wrote to my property mates: "I found a cool free website for seeing shade at our site throughout the day and year. Maybe helpful for garden planning. Our address is loaded in [here]". Reply: "Wow! That is cool!". It seems to be very much in the solarpunk spirit (even more so with your engagement here). I hope to incorporate it into my solar installation work. Thank you :)

I recommend the book: Reinventing the Organization. It has case studies of alternative models around the world.

My first thought as well!

Some have a smaller tighter codebase... where it's realistic to pursue consistent application of an internal style guide (which current AI seems well suited to help with (or take ownership of)).

Code style is something that should be enforceable with linters and formatters for the most part without any need for an AI.

That's not what style means.

A linter is well suited for this. If you have style rules too complex for a linter to handle I think the problem is the rules, not the enforcement mechanism.

My comment here got two downvotes. I was trying to contribute positively to the conversation. I've barely ever downvoted anyone. I upvoted the parent comment even though I disagreed with it (because I appreciated the perspective). The drive-by downvoters in HN bum me out.

Volts is an awesome podcast for energy-transition enthusiasts.