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You’re putting too much solar on your roof (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)

submitted 10 months ago by Eyekaytee@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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TLDR: please don't just put solar on your roof, we're past those days, please either get an EV you can charge during the day or battery

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

probably in a way that doesn't consider "supply and demand" of a nearly endless resource.

[–] Tau@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The nearly endless resource doesn't put out at night though - hence the supply and demand problem still being an issue. We've now got enough production to cover demand at peak solar output but now we need enough storage to utilise that peak supply and cover demand at other times.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

at night we buy energy from the grid. figure out a system that doesn't include stupid stuff like negative pricing for the mostly coal or petroleum fired energy.

or we go all out on batteries and store the extra energy from the day.

they could try all sorts of solutions instead of telling people to stop using solar panels if they really wanted to.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago

or we go all out on batteries and store the extra energy from the day.

Yes that's what the article is saying

The day time negative pricing is because coal power plants can't turn off but are needed at night, if we stop needing them at night we can just shut them down