[erentz]

This is a really good argument for carbon taxation to appropriately increase the cost of dirty energy. Send the correct price signal everywhere rather than making your own software do the equivalent of looking out the window at the weather and trying to decide if it’s a sunny or rainy or windy or clam day, and thus if solar or wind generation is making the grid cleaner. Or if instead those are likely offline and the grid is dirtier today.

Best thing. Then you incentivize a cleaner grid overall and you don’t even have to worry eventually about this kind of thing.

[Barrin92]

In particular a revenue neutral carbon tax with dividend should be politically as uncontroversial as it gets because it is also economically equitable. It's totally perplexing to me why these relatively low-hanging fruit solutions are not being pursued.

[ragebol]

Exactly. It then also starts to make local storage (like powerwall) more interesting. When your PV generates a lot, prices will go down so better store the excess for times with higher prices. And when you don't generate PV power but can still store, you buy cheap also to use when prices go up.

If there is also a dynamic price for using the grid, that usage will also spread.