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California already has an issue with peak solar happening before peak demand. There's a rush to spin up all the natural gas power plants during peak demand. Mor
by ThatPlayer 3y ago
California already has an issue with peak solar happening before peak demand. There's a rush to spin up all the natural gas power plants during peak demand. More solar doesn't really help with that, and is part of the problem because you can only spin up power plants so fast.
They've named it the duck curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve