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Weirdly, it's not seen as a problem at all in Europe while we have same or higher proportion of electricity from variable renewables, and lower from fossil fuel
by anovikov 3y ago
Weirdly, it's not seen as a problem at all in Europe while we have same or higher proportion of electricity from variable renewables, and lower from fossil fuels here.
- petre 3y agoThe problem is that we don't have enough transport infrastructure to distribute it where it's needed, so what do you do with the excess capacity, smelt aluminium?
- anovikov 3y agoI think eventually this problem will be solved mostly by reducing transportation distances as solar will be wider distributed so on average power will travel a shorter distance. It's not some terribly fantastic amounts of power we are talking about. Full decarbonisation of EU will need only about 5x more renewable electricity than today. In any case, 2050 plan does not call for any drastic increase in transmission capacity. Don't forget that power output from hydro can be greatly increased if needed - total amount of energy produced can't because water in dams is finite - but peak power can be increased rather cheaply.