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Year in Review: Solar Generation in 2024
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoI really like these blog updates and their record tracker but could they have phrased "solar is cheaper than alternatives so prices go up after sunset" in a more ominous way if they tried? > prices are much lower while solar is generating, but as it ramps down prices escalate along with net load. This is under graphs of the peak load days in which the price only spikes for a couple of hours. Why is this not a tone of celebration? We're cheaply turning sunlight into power via quantum physics in two incredibly sunny states. Massively reducing their peak load problem over a few years of deployment and now basically solving it with some batteries. And this is easily replicable across most of the world. We did it folks! High fives all round.
- rossdavidh 2y agoSolar's share of US power generation has doubled in the last four years.
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