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That makes sense, although I don't know enough to refute it. However, renewables covering 80% sounds very high to me without some large-scale energy storage sol
by StavrosK 7y ago
That makes sense, although I don't know enough to refute it. However, renewables covering 80% sounds very high to me without some large-scale energy storage solutions.
- pfdietz 7y agoSolar is getting so cheap that the first thing one would do is over-install and curtail it. In some places, the solar gets installed at near-vertical angles to maximize output in winter. The next is diurnal storage. The final 20% or so is seasonal and rare long outages due to weather. Dispatchable demand is also a big possibility, especially if it can exploit the times the curtailed output is almost free. There was a study in Minnesota that solar and wind could get to 70% of the market there before storage would make sense. The crossover point depends on economic details.