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>loads of desert, enough to make PV stable. No they don’t. They can provide a stable curve during the day at scale. But that doesn’t help with night time or th
by kortilla 2y ago
>loads of desert, enough to make PV stable.
No they don’t. They can provide a stable curve during the day at scale. But that doesn’t help with night time or the fact that demand does not peak when the sun does.
- ben_w 2y agoDiurnal is too regular for me to count it as "instability", even if we didn't have batteries and other storage, as hourly pricing is already a thing that has often made nighttime cheaper than daytime because supply didn't used to ramp down to match demand without that discount. Even then, the US covers how many hours of longitude? Because that's how much extra pre-dawn the west can get from the east, and how much post-sunset the east can get from the west — even just diversifying geographically from San Fran to Cisco Utah* gets you nearly two hours. * why is a ghost town the most notable place in the area, according to Google Maps?