[didgetmaster]

Renewable power tends to be sporadic. When the wind is blowing or the sun is shining brightly, they produce a lot of cheap power.

People think the solution is to build huge battery packs to store all that excess power during peak periods and drain them down during off-peak times.

That is certainly a solution, even if it is an expensive one. Perhaps a cheaper one is to get everyone to consume the power while it is being produced. Running air conditioners at full blast. Washing clothes and dishes. Charging electric vehicles. There are many things that can be shifted to those peak times, if the incentives are there.

[ukd1]

This won't work. Just do air-conditioning whilst power is being produced? LOL, you know it's hot in someplaces outside of that?

[didgetmaster]

I didn't say only do air conditioning during the peak times. You can definitely adjust the AC so that it runs on full during the peak times and cools things down a few degrees below ideal, then back it off and allow the temperature to rise a few degrees once electricity becomes more expensive.

Again, if the incentives are there, people will adjust.

[HDBaseT]

This might work if you live in an airtight 1 m × 1 m × 1 m cube.

Running the aircon 5 degrees colder at 1pm and turning it off at 2pm will nullify the temperature difference in under 30 minutes.