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Steven Scott's avatar

Interesting conversation. Thanks. If many homes in Australia have not yet installed batteries and these homes are feeding electricity onto the grid during the day, how do utilities deal with this? Do the utilities have sufficient batteries to store this electricity? Or can the utilities reduce base load electricity production (ie from gas turbines) to balance supply and demand? I have read that it can be very difficult for utilities to respond to fluctuations in electricity production from solar and wind because electricity production from solar and wind can change suddenly due to the variability of sunshine and wind. This puts stress on the grid and affects the reliability of the grid. This is worrisome for those of us living in areas where the temperatures can get -30F during the winter.

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Chip Pitfield's avatar

Excellent thread, thank you.

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