• Rivalarrival
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    17 hours ago

    Let’s say you have an aluminiun factory, which obviously needs lots of energy 24/7.

    Very often, they just run overnight, not 24/7. Grid operators incentivize their off-peak consumption to increase the base load on their baseload generators, making them more efficient.

    The solar-friendly solution is to just shift their operations to daytime instead of nighttime. This reduces total overnight demand, and reduces the need for storage.