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by ThatPlayer 933 days ago
Because natural gas plants don't just turn on and off. They're engines that take time to ramp up and down. If you can't ramp up fast enough to meet demand when solar ramps down as the sun sets, you have power outages. Adding more solar makes this problem worse. They call it the duck curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
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Yeah. Another reason why gas plants will soon be obsolete.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/giant-batteries-drai...