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What this says to me is that Denmark has underinvested in energy storage. Don't worry, this is true of most every country on Earth at the moment. Generation t
by jandrese 3y ago
What this says to me is that Denmark has underinvested in energy storage. Don't worry, this is true of most every country on Earth at the moment. Generation tech has outpaced the storage tech for a few years and now we are getting pathological cases like this cropping up from time to time. The good news is that battery factories are coming online all the time and there is a possibility of closing the gap in the next few years. This is also a prerequisite for transitioning away from dirty fossil fuels.
- jfengel 3y agoEnergy storage is good, but there's nothing wrong with "We've got more electricity than we can use, go be productive with it." I don't know what industries could take advantage of that -- smelt some extra aluminum, make some extra fertilizer, sequester some extra CO2. But time-shifting production is also a valid way to "store" energy. It's a problem that could be an opportunity.
- brazzy 3y ago> Generation tech has outpaced the storage tech for a few years It's more like storage tech went nowhere for decades. > and now we are getting pathological cases like this cropping up from time to time. It's not pathological at all to have more generation capacity than you can use when the source varies so much. It's just reality.
- jandrese 3y agoEven just 20 years ago renewable generation was barely a blip on the national power grid, because they were so expensive as to be completely impractical. Our era of affordable solar is less than a decade old. No demand for storage meant no activity in the market, hence the lag now that wind and solar have become so cheap that everybody can install it.