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It's not actually that easy to burn away excess power when you're operating at grid scale.
by adrusi 5y ago
It's not actually that easy to burn away excess power when you're operating at grid scale.
- jeffbee 5y agoIt is trivially easy to disconnect solar panels from the grid in times of low demand.
- adrusi 5y agoThis is by no means something I know much about, but I understood that disconnecting a panel causes it to heat up from sunlight to the point that it can reduce its useful lifespan.
- jeffbee 5y agoThat is somewhat true of exotic panels that nobody uses for utility-scale power, but it's not a necessary outcome of disconnecting a source from the grid. It doesn't have to be disconnected from everything. When removed from the grid, they can just be shorted.
- adrusi 5y agoHow does shorting it reduce the heat it experiences? Short it through something that creates a load, like a coil?