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There is this bad penny idea that solar at scale won't work without massive batteries. My belief is you can use CCGT plants to backstop solar and wind just fine
by Gibbon1 6y ago
There is this bad penny idea that solar at scale won't work without massive batteries. My belief is you can use CCGT plants to backstop solar and wind just fine.
- ZeroGravitas 6y agoSolar (and wind) is getting so cheap that the first option is to overbuild and throw some excess electricity away. Batteries are then well placed to shift a few gours worth of solar from day to night. Gas still has a place for seasonal demand far from the equator but even there you can dilute the gas with hydrogen to lower its carbon footprint.