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Aside from energy storage, which the other comments touch, there is also the use of variable pricing to drive demand during peak solar production hours. Factor
by AdamN 3y ago
Aside from energy storage, which the other comments touch, there is also the use of variable pricing to drive demand during peak solar production hours. Factories and other big users would have their most intensive work aligned to when energy is cheapest during the day. That way any needed storage is minimized.
- ThatPlayer 3y agoProblem is peak electricity usage is 4-9pm when people come home from work, turn on the A/C, TVs, stoves, lights, etc. Residential users, not factories. Moving that peak is not feasible unless you're somehow changing the standard 9 to 5 workday. So raising peak hours prices too much will just hurt a majority of people California has already mandated migrating plans to variable pricing, because there's so much solar. They call it time-of-use plans, and that's where I'm pulling 4-9pm from. Weekend peak hours are also priced lower because more people are home during the day and the peaks are lower. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/balancing_authority/CISO https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr... Last weekend's lowered peaks are a bit less noticable because of the holiday Monday though.