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lawani:
It should be the empire of the sun.

It is said that by covering one percent of the Sahara desert with PV farms we can generate enough electrical power for the whole world for all homes, industries and etc. The only challenge remaining will be how to distribute it. Such PV farms can be scattered all over the world such that there will not be any downtime.
I wrote something years ago about how the distribution of the power can be done with low Earth orbit satellites with the power being beamed from the farms and reflected to different parts of the Earth by satellites. There will of course be leakages and the farms, being large will cost a lot to maintain.

The real solution I now think is in solar power generated by micro plants that can be managed by even one person and also on a part time basis while energy storage technology is further developed to take care of downtimes. Storage to take care of downtimes is the ultimate solution. There is no solution that is cheap.

If you have resources as an institution or individual, then try to sponsor research on how to improve energy storage solutions. We also need innovations. There are viable solutions already but the resources required by such solutions are scarce. Energy storage is the future but lithium deposits already discovered can not support all of Earth's homes and industries. Though energy storage is not really needed for industries that do not need to be upstream during sundown.

Energy storage is where more research is needed and if it is solved, power costs will become even more mediocre and it can be solved.

From my investigations, Power costs even in the high income countries should not be more than 0.3 cents per kWh if power plants are collecting ninety percent of the revenue collected by power distribution companies. It can be twenty percent of 0.3 cents per kwh in low income countries because of wage bill differentials. With micro plants as described where distribution companies don't add much, if any infrastructure, ninety percent of revenue can certainly go to the investors. The distribution in my opinion is best done by government.

LeJeun3:
Bro, please chat me up. You have forgotten me

FutureFocus:
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nenergy:
My brother, this year own na die

Drgreatone:
Wow.... For personal use? PHCN/Neighbors go dey envy u

swagifted:
whats the battery size of this setup

anthonex:
Hello House; am new to this topic and I have been following almost all comments and post reading them carefully. If anyone can help me, I will like a quote for 50kva solar inverter installation requirements & cost. The 50 kva is for 5 apartments meaning 10kva per building. Also what is the expected usage of equipments per apartments running at that 10kva solar inverter power system. Thank You in Advance