"that the grid can't handle" is just another example of market distortion. It is a choice of the market, not to say "the grid can't handle so much generation of non-RE."
There is a lag in response of the market when you build a gas plant or a nuke that can't be turned down when the cost leans toward RE. A decades long distortion. Again the consumer pays. Because this lost flexibility is cooked in The gain of economy of scale a maybe archaic large generation facility has a hidden cost of preventing cleaner less costly, more flexible, but weirdly time constrained RE generation. I think H2 might be useful as a storage medium. Lots of inefficiency, but on a large scale it has merit. Better than turning down or shutting off a clean cheap generation means. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 10:22 AM Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > It could be that the grid can't handle any significant generation of PV > energy. If it could, economics would dictate that excess PV energy would > be sold, not shut down. > > The other possibility is this will produce an incentive to create > hydrogen storage for excess PV energy. In my opinion, that's an > excellent use for electrolysis plus either hydrogen turbines or fuel > cells. Note, for this application, the hydrogen does not need to be > compressed. > > Peri > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210901/c3175070/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
