Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power
Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power
www.abc.net.au
Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power
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This is a problem created by the suppliers who have kept jacking up prices. What else are people going to do? And the last few years they've upped the daily connection fee so you have to pay them regardless if you use energy or not.
Privatization was a huge mistake.. thanks LNP.
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This seems like a good problem to have, no? Just need some batteries or some interruptible industrial processes to absorb the excess.
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That fucking doublespeak clickbait headline, straight out of goddamned Orwell.
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Plug in more electrical devices!! Buy a wall powered vibrator!
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I uh... I wouldn't mind if they sent some of that struggle to my country, I think I could bear it.
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Yes, I volunteer as tribute!
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get the government to stop fuckin spiders, put a hybrid system on every house, job fuckin done, (i know it's harder then that but is it really?)
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Interesting how it's phrased as a bad thing. Article was probably sponsored by Big Coal.
Whole of Australia is sponsored by coal
To be fair, WA by "natural" gas... /s
Unfortunately it is a problem that needs solving. Electricity needs to be used as it is produced and if its not, it will be a problem. Where i live, the de facto solution today is to heat the oceans. That's not a viable long term solution and why we urgently need to find a way to store energy!
While that is true for power plants with spinning turbines, it isn't true for solar power. There is no issue at all when you don't consume all the energy that a solar panel could produce.
New V2G will help, take it up through the day,. some discharge at night.
And this could be actioned
https://thefifthestate.com.au/the-conversation/if-our-hot-water-heaters-ran-off-daytime-solar-we-would-slash-emissions-and-soak-up-cheap-energy/
Can solar panels not be turned off? I see panels that aren't plugged into anything and they don't exactly blow up. Can't they just be turned off when storage reaches a certain capacity?