[defrost]

Things take time.

Currently there's more than 100 concentrated solar thermal plants, generating 7GWh of power, deployed around the world with a another 30 under construction right now in China and a third generation plant being designed here in Australia while the second gen is currently being built and tested after the success of first gen pilot.

https://theconversation.com/batteries-wont-cut-it-we-need-so...

It's happening, it just hasn't yet arrived at scale.

In parallel we're also seeing the rise of solar -> green hydrogen | ammonia | methanol for use in heavy primary industry (mining and transport) which is a decent chunk of fossil fuel use to be displaced.

[cbmuser]

»It's happening, it just hasn't yet arrived at scale.«

Making it at scale is a MAJOR challenge.

Germany alone consumes up to 1.6 billion kWh on a single day. That's the capacity of 16 million Tesla-S batteries with 100 kWh.

Solving the storage problem is simply infeasible and is never going to happen in the foreseeable future!

[plastic3169]

Germany has 50 million cars. Are you saying that after those have been turned eletric their batteries alone would be enough to cover the countrys battery needs?

[TheLoafOfBread]

Usually people buy cars to drive them around, not to use them as batteries for poorly designed grids.

[defrost]

Ergo the rise of concentrated solar thermal plants (CSPS) and using excess peak solar to produce hydrogen, ammonia, methonal, etc for off peak (night time) demand.

Batteries aren't the only way in which energy can be offset by 10 hours to meet lower night time demand.