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A farm that uses artificial light (vertical, greenhouse, or otherwise) could actually be a perfect electrical load shedding mechanism. Keep the lights at nomina

A farm that uses artificial light (vertical, greenhouse, or otherwise) could actually be a perfect electrical load shedding mechanism. Keep the lights at nominal levels during normal grid operation, and turn them up to absorb grid load. Preferably you're colocating this near the source of excess solar / wind energy. The farm would be providing the grid a valuable service, while also dumping that excess energy into usable calories.

antisthenes 3y ago
> Keep the lights at nominal levels during normal grid operation, and turn them up to absorb grid load. That's a great way to light-burn the sensitive plants and to shorten the life of LED lights. There are approximately hundreds of better ways to shed grid load.