Very few renewables are wound down, though. Usually the excess is used to fill pumped storage or turn down hydro plants. For now that’s a viable strategy but soon are exceed renewable will be have to be used someplace else so it’s not a bad idea. I doubt it’ll be enough though.
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CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months agoAs mentioned elswhere in the thread, running a carbon capture plant is something you could just do when renewables are producing excess output which would be more efficient than just winding them down.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Trees got solar panels built in you’re not gonna win this one.