That’s when my electric car is plugged in and taking up quite a bit of power.
Finally, power at night, when everyone’s asleep and we always have had excess.
hark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
sexy_peach@feddit.org 7 months ago
That’s when it should be plugged in.
nulluser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So, then why are you confused about what’s using power at night?
frank@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
This is a very old school and outdated mentality.
In my part of the EU this year, we had very very many days of negative sale prices and having to curtail wind parks because just solar and wind were making up more than demand during the day. Afaik we only curtailed at night one time.
Source: wrote curtailment algorithms for wind turbines
sexy_peach@feddit.org 7 months ago
Do you mean my mentality or the one of the new technology?
It’s not necessary to produce power 24/7 since demand isn’t 24/7 either. Strong peaks and valleys.
frank@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Your mentality is old school. We have often more need at night than during the day for non renewable electricity right now
sexy_peach@feddit.org 7 months ago
I see. Do you know what’s using that power?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 months ago
shplane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The energy can be stored for use for later during the day