Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.

I’ll note that right now, this is a seasonal issue, associated with moderate springtime temperatures when there is a lot of sunshine available.

  • wizzor@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    In Finland that’s what we do (if you have a ‘market priced’ contract). I have my heating set up so that it will ‘overheat’ my apartment when power is very cheap, effectively using the interior space as a rudimentary thermal battery.

    There was an incident a few months ago, that caused power price to became absurdly negative, someone made a wrong bid and people used 90M€ worth of power in a few hours as a result.