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Ok I see. The problem that the duck curve is really about, is not about the lack of solar at certain times of the day, but really that other sources of power ne
by bryan0 5y ago
Ok I see. The problem that the duck curve is really about, is not about the lack of solar at certain times of the day, but really that other sources of power need to ramp up and down efficiently around solar.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoYep, the duck curve was a problem they anticipated they'd hit when trying to get to 15% solar in California, not a general problem for getting to 100% renewable. Even then it was one of those "good problems to have" as it meant you had an unimaginably high (at that time) level of solar. Some places arent as lucky as California when it comes to solar provision. The fix for the totally seperate "nighttime" problem is some mix of oversupply of wind, hydro, demand management, transmission lines, batteries etc. but we only need to continue with the next low hanging fruit at the moment as we've not even maxed out solar pv (fallacy #1 in the article is expecting instant perfection and having solutions to all the problems we haven't actually hit yet)