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by bbarn 1031 days ago
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...

In the industry the "duck curve" drives a lot of decision making and messaging around the grid in California.

Energy use late at night is not as bad, because there's less of it used. It's the 3-9pm (Usually I hear 4-9, but same thing) hours when solar supply drops off and demand peaks at the same time that they are speaking about. People plugging in cars to L2 chargers when they get home, lights all go on, AC on, etc. It's usually just talked about in the context of grid availability, not so much with GHG emissions, but things are changing in that direction as regulations continue to change.

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