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12% Natural gas at peak times also refutes this article. It's not too much solar if we still have to burn fossil fuels for power generation.
by notTooFarGone 2y ago
12% Natural gas at peak times also refutes this article.
It's not too much solar if we still have to burn fossil fuels for power generation.
- nielsbot 2y agoseems like storage is the answer? the grid status folks published a blog entry talking about batteries are reducing CA’s reliance of nat gas. https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/ https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/
- reducesuffering 2y agoI believe natural gas plants have a minimum idle so they can respond to the volatility of energy demand that needs to be met in real time. I don't think you can run the plants at 0 during the entire day and start them up again quick to respond immensely at 6pm.
- notTooFarGone 2y agoIf only there was a pattern to calibrate gas usage to... like a particular time when the sun goes down :D As long as there is gas in the mix in my opinion it is not a "too much solar" but a distribution and storage problem.