PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to CMoore2004
Re: Let's see the specs first...... If you live in the boonies, you are probably the only customer served by your utility's transformer. And those transformers are probably widely spaced. So it would be economically impractical to provide you with BPL.
Anyone who says BPL is the great rural hope is just showing that they don't understand how BPL is deployed. Even in urban areas in the U.S., it's tough to make the business case. Maybe in Europe, where one node on a transformer can serve 200-300 customers, it might be possible to make a profit. But in the U.S., the average number of customers in urban areas is only about ten. |
