California Duck Curve - Running into zero power demand

[peakbagger]

California Solar Duck Curve Gets Bigger - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. As more solar capacity has come online in California, grid operators at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) have observed a drop in net load (or the demand remaining after subtracting variable renewable...

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The latest "duck" curve for California is interesting, for a few hours a day, all the power demand is supplied by renewables. Looks like the state needs to deploy lots of storage and load shifting.

 

[woodgeek]

Nive level-heafinanded article, that describes the financial impact that the duck has on traditional peakers, and the case it makes for grid batteries (which are being rapidly adopted).

All seems as anticipated years ago. Except the solar might be cheaper than predicted, and the batteries price is on target or perhaps a bit more expensive.

 

[peakbagger]

Nive level-heafinanded Not really understanding what you were trying to say

 

[woodgeek]

Haha.... early morning 'autocorrect' of 'Nice level-headed article.'

 

[DBoon]

Nive level-heafinanded

Thought you were speaking Dutch