The ‘duck curve’ is solar energy’s greatest challenge

Solar power is an idea nobody needs.

3:24 "The more power that can be stored, the more you can sort of let solar rip."
No, "The more ENERGY that can be stored, the more you can sort of let solar rip. You would help that a power authority would have a better grip o the terminology.

a Volume Unit meter seems out of place

Could we talk

And why aren’t they using a battery back up to harness that energy for later use?

This is quite an old video. Whilst I am not in favour of the government telling us what sort of car we can buy, the push towards EVs has led to a decrease in the price of large capacity batteries. These could be used to flatten the duck curve and even out short term fluctuations in solar output. This would be a better use for them than using them in EVs, which are beginning to prove unpopular, and would give us more reliable electricity, not less.

The end consumer could adapt more. When the price triples at 9 pm. People and businesses would use less, saving money by using ice made during high generation times for cooling. Many people turn the air conditioning off during the day to save money but spend more trying to catch up at peak cost times.

we know now batteries or other sources can take up the slack and make money doing it

Very bad video. Didn't even mention Pumped-storage hydroelectricity, which is a no brainer solution for this problem. It's cheap and easy.

Is it better to charge an EV at noon or overnight? I contend that the baseload source matters the most in this decision. If it’s nuclear and there is excess production overnight then the answer is obvious. If fossil fuels are burned for nighttime power production then the answer is obvious. How can I find out my utility’s nighttime source?

One word … batteries.

Thats why electric cars get important: They can load during midday on the parking lot or can step in with their batteries in times of need. Another possibility is to use solar energy during midday to produce hydrogen. You might step up energy-consuming processes during midday. The energy market when functioning helps to step up innovations and clever decisions. In Europe solar plants are planned with batteries very often because you can sell electricity more expensive later in the day. — There are many ways.

And a solution they did find. California implemented a new policy called Net Energy Metering 3.0 which discourages excess solar export and encourages on site storage.

In Cyprus, we have a similar problem, due to high PV production in spring and low load (our weather conditions are similar to California's). That's why, my final year project aims to find a way, so that people can charge their EV at work and increase the consumption during the day, so that the EV consum the wasted PV production

Great explanation!

Adequate market pricing signals (hourly retail prices for electricity) and stable market framework conditions. The developers will install the most efficient storage and generation technologies. Problem solved.

Is there a reason the over generation of the solar can't be implemented (or stored) as hydrogen manufacturing? What about pumping water uphill to be stored on a inclined plane? What about applying the over generation electricity to already reclaimed waste heat, raising temperatures of the recollection (as waste heat too weak to produce work) and simply apply combination mediation to a recycling as steam turbine power?
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