Don't get confused by peak net-demand i.e. demand that is left after you subtract solar. The newly cheap midday power should be driving demand towards that tim

Don't get confused by peak net-demand i.e. demand that is left after you subtract solar. The newly cheap midday power should be driving demand towards that time period but it won't show up on net demand charts, which will show the famous duck curve belly at that time. That doesn't mean people aren't using energy at that time. In fact the main way to detect this demand shift in a net demand graph is to see that the evening peaks are dropping year over year, even as they seem relatively larger compared with net demand when solar is working. But anyway, in California the massive deployment of batteries in the last few years has already solved this problem. Compared with peaking gas plants that only run once a day for a few hours batteries are both cheap and clean.