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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 18:24:17 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
>
>> But today, no, it is not feasable today, other than on a very small
>> scale (single household) to be 100% solar and have sufficient storage to
>> cover for some amount of "sun isn't shining" days.
>
> The solar companies here take another tack since pure solar isn't feasible
> this far north. According to them when the sun is shining you pump
> electricity into the grid, giving you credits when you're pulling from the
> grid. Even then I assume their payback figures are well cooked.
>

Is the grid prepared for this working at scale? And it seems to me that 
all solar would "sell" at the same time, driving down the price to zero or 
even creating an excess, while all the ones in this system would need 
energy at the same time (night) driving the price up, therefore again, 
needing some kind of storage.