Fresh water is very easy to store for prolonged amounts of time, that makes it easier to run a desal plant on intermittent (solar/wind) power than many other hi

Fresh water is very easy to store for prolonged amounts of time, that makes it easier to run a desal plant on intermittent (solar/wind) power than many other high-energy industries. (However, in practice the capital costs of a plant are such that it usually makes sense to use non-renewable power to let them run 24/7 instead of having them idle when there is no renewable power)