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There are alternatives to gas, which are starting to get deployed: Demand control: There are already some electricity tariffs offering prices based on hourly m
by legulere 3y ago
There are alternatives to gas, which are starting to get deployed:
Demand control: There are already some electricity tariffs offering prices based on hourly market rates. There are plans to make them more accessible for customers by rolling out intelligent meters faster. Heating and Car charging are massive users for electricity that can be moved off to better hours.
Batteries: already financially attractive today, even though there are senseless taxes and duties on it.
Biomass like biogas: currently this is driven mostly as base load because of incentives, but it could play a bigger role as a dispatchable electricity source.
Green hydrogen: Can be used for longer-term storage. Production can be turned off in low electricity supply times. This one is the one most far out.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoBatteries are not financially attractive in Belgium where I live. And by not attractive I mean that it is slightly more financially attractive to generate surplus electricity with solar panels during the day than to use electricity at night even without factoring in the battery cost. Biomass and green hydrogen are utopian dreams. Hydrogen because it is so small that it always leaks. Biomass because it is not scaleable. Demand control is the only viable option, but this means lower quality of life.
- runarberg 3y agoHas the quality of life significantly decreased as they have replaced nuclear power with solar + wind? I guess we can also look at the data to find that out. https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Germany/human_development/ https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Germany/human_development/
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