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by PaulDavisThe1st 240 days ago
"All" it needs to be sustainable is a massive investment in storage systems (BESS, and/or others).
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You can't store energy year-round. I explained the situation in more detail in a sibling comment but the tl;dr is that people expected to run net-metering households expected to run their brand new heat pumps full tilt in the winter for ~free, the economic reality disagreed, and rates were changed to reflect that.