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The grid has wild differences between day and night. Who cares if you can run at 100% when no one wants the power because everyone is asleep?
by ViewTrick1002 3y ago
The grid has wild differences between day and night. Who cares if you can run at 100% when no one wants the power because everyone is asleep?
- kragen 3y agonegative lmps have long been a result of baseload plants exceeding demand at night; widespread deployment of pv has turned that on its head, because now it's midafternoon when prices go negative, but also in a sense exacerbated it. consequently, expect rapid development of grid-scale storage: pumped hydro and massive li-ion, of course, but also maybe centrifugal trompe isothermal air compression, sodium-ion batteries, or high-temperature liquid-metal batteries