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> In such a world, lots of surplus energy would be available at low cost for a flexible consumer such as this. That totally happens already. When you look at a
by martin_a 4y ago
> In such a world, lots of surplus energy would be available at low cost for a flexible consumer such as this.
That totally happens already. When you look at a windy, sunny day in Germany in the summer, you'll find that renewables are producing so much energy that prices drop into the negative and somebody is being paid to burn it.
I think we'll see this more often with more renewables and it might be a chance to have, not yet highly optimized, processes running that need a lot of energy. Desalination is one of those, so is production of hydrogen.