@PJ_Evans 100%. Which is why I have a home battery that powers our house from 4 pm to 9 pm, when electricity costs are higher because of time-of-use pricing. And why there are lots of energy storage startups. Not everybody can afford a battery, and at grid scale they aren't anywhere near what's required to meet demands. Recent trends are favorable but not there yet.
@stshank I do not see the problem. California is not an island. There is a large national grid. Sell the excess to the cloudy places. Charge electric cars. If anything, this is not a solar problem but a transmission problem with a storage annotation.
And you can't average out the evening surge power demand. Batteries are getting cheaper but they're still $$$. Charging EVs during the day could help, especially for cars that sit around most of the day. But unfortunately it doesn't work for trucks in use during the day.
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