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Too fancy, IMO. The easiest path is demand respond: you just need to control when you put on A/Cs, refrigerators, lighting intensity, industrial manufacturing,
by WhompingWindows 7y ago
Too fancy, IMO. The easiest path is demand respond: you just need to control when you put on A/Cs, refrigerators, lighting intensity, industrial manufacturing, etc. By incentivizing responsive demand, the intermittency issue becomes far less important.
- ourlordcaffeine 7y agoIn the UK, there is "economy7" pricing, where consumer electricity is cheaper during the night. In high solar output countries, I could see the opposite happening, that you start seeing tariffs where energy is cheapest around midday when solar output is high.