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Comment on Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

Can solar panels not be turned off? I see panels that aren’t plugged into anything and they don’t exactly blow up. Can’t they just be turned off when storage reaches a certain capacity?

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Tobberone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Due to the other comment below, i spoke with the guys that run our panels and they answered “well, in theory…” Why that is, if its because of rules/standardisation issues, or that’s it previously been inconceivable that there would ever be so much panels about that one would want to, I don’t know. But that is the word from a production team counting the yearly production in GWh and running MW-range batteries.

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- threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  or that the idea of turning them off is simply inconceivable (why would I turn mine off and let others make money)
  
  If that’s the issue, it seems like time-of-use rates or smart metering could be an easy solution. If the price of electricity were negative during periods of oversupply, I bet people would figure out how to disconnect their solar panels pretty quickly. This would simultaneously incentivize energy storage projects.
  
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