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By that metric if you produce lots of electricity at the exact times when no one needs it, you are a hero because lots of MWh for some small build cost. That m
by macilacilove 5y ago
By that metric if you produce lots of electricity at the exact times when no one needs it, you are a hero because lots of MWh for some small build cost.
That metric ignores how much real world economy is being enabled by the power that you generated, roughly the price for which you could sell your energy in a free market.
My point would be that energy is much more important when the sun is not shining, etc. that makes e.g. solar not as good as a naive calculation would say. That sould be accounted for right?
- dane-pgp 5y ago> if you produce lots of electricity at the exact times when no one needs it, you are a hero I think that currently if you are capable of producing electricity but no one needs it, you get curtailed, and your "theoretical production" doesn't get counted towards your levelized cost. What really needs to happen is for there to be good ways to store that otherwise-wasted energy (opportunity). Flow batteries are a promising technology for grid energy storage, as are power-to-gas and power-to-ammonia systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage