Here is a very revealing chart, easily verifiable. It shows a well kept secret, that transmission and conversion losses -transformers- account for over Half of all the electricity generated at large plants. It's lost before it ever reaches the end-user. Think about that! As far as a transition is concerned it means rooftop solar, consumed at the point of production, is really the only way to go forward. Enough panels to run a house, or a supermarket, or light industrial say.
Big extended solar farms and wind farms don't actually serve the average consumer and are really only needed for heavy industrial applications which would include all electrified rail probably. So as always the taxpayer and average worker is subsidizing Big Business. Also the massive and expensive grid expansions we read about are not needed with rooftop because the electricity isn't being transmitted, and if it is, it's only into the local area, to supply your neighbors say. That takes pressure off the long distance grid as less power is needed to be shipped in. Point of use rooftop is the only part of the transition I approve of. Everything else chatted about in the media is just garbage designed to enrich and/ or subsidize big business.
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It's a very detailed chart and takes a little study to parse out the details. For example, rounding off, Nuclear goes 100% into the grid and suffers 60% loss. Renewables go 40% into the grid, with 22% directly into transportation, biofuels like ethanol probably? And 27% going into industrial.
When you trace a line to the RH side of the flowchart the percentage there is how much of that actual end use sector's energy supply comes from the LH source. So 70% of petroleum consumption goes to supply 90% of our transport requirements. 14% of natural Gas supplies 40% of residential energy needs. Gas heating and cooking as well as heated driveways lol.
