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Based upon the UK's National Grid Data (https://grid.iamkate.com/ https://grid.iamkate.com/) I would disagree with you - It seems that peak demand lies at about
by infinityio 5y ago
Based upon the UK's National Grid Data (https://grid.iamkate.com/ https://grid.iamkate.com/) I would disagree with you - It seems that peak demand lies at about 6PM, and solar peaks about 11:30AM - This leads to a significant increase in fossil fuel consumption around this time
- freeflight 5y agoThe UK is a curious example to use for this, afaik a big part of that "peak demand" is people starting up their electric tea kettles in a phenomenon known as TV pickup [0] For contrast, here are the stats for Germany [1] and the consumption peaks during the day contrast very well with the night consumption. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup [1] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electricity-data/chart/power_generation/13.02.2022/16.02.2022/today/ https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...