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If it would be up to free market, you would be paying for supplying electricity from your solar panels to the grid during day (because there is nowhere to store
by TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
If it would be up to free market, you would be paying for supplying electricity from your solar panels to the grid during day (because there is nowhere to store it) and paying for feeding electricity of the grid during the night (because somebody must make it)
- sebular 3y agoNobody would pay to supply to the grid. If it came to that, panels would have an automatic shutoff, or some device that burns off excess electricity by doing pointless work.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoIt is called negative prices and it is actual problem https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/eu-must-address-wasted-green-energy-and-negative-prices-says-solar-industry/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/eu-must-address...
- smileysteve 3y agoThat's odd, because traditionally, daytime generation is the hardest for utilities to keep up with, especially with factories (induction motors), offices, and residential HVACs - all of which are used less outside the day shift (before sunset). So much so that many time of use programs are most expensive from 10am-7pm (DST)