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Right now the grids in Texas go negative from an over abundance of wind power, and California regularly pays to get rid of peak power during the duck curve. It’
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
Right now the grids in Texas go negative from an over abundance of wind power, and California regularly pays to get rid of peak power during the duck curve. It’s cheap, and also not very valuable.
The stable, high-duty cycle of a power plant is very valuable per kWh, and what renewables must compete against. Maybe someday we’ll get cheap versions of that through new battery inventions, but that day is definitely not today or the near future. There’s only one carbon free way to get it at scale.