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How are they going to balance supply from solar (which peaks at midday, and goes away entirely at night) with demand (which usually peaks in the evening)?
by rjmunro 8y ago
How are they going to balance supply from solar (which peaks at midday, and goes away entirely at night) with demand (which usually peaks in the evening)?
- jerven 8y agoSame way anyone else will. Displacing demand to easier times. If most demand is aircon based then moving it to pre-cooling (make ice during day/defrost during evening) etc... and economics will do that for the largest consumers. A bit of storage, and peaker plants. Storage kinds do not really mater as it is all about what is locally price efficient. Otherwise, it is the same as the nuclear case. Production does not match demand curve so fix it with storage, pricing and other tools. (i.e. if nuclear is baseload something else needs to produce when demand peeks, which in other words makes it rather similar in practice (see also why all the pumped storage in the UK was build in the 60-80's))
- ju-st 8y agoThe newest trend is to orientate the PV panels east-west instead south. If you want to know more: http://www.rechargenews.com/solar/1182796/is-east-west-the-best-for-pv-arrays http://www.rechargenews.com/solar/1182796/is-east-west-the-b...