I live in South Australia where the wholesale electricity price frequently goes negative during the day because there is too much solar power.
I could fully charge my car 2-3 times per day from the amount of solar power my house generates. I’m frequently turning down my solar inverters (automated) to avoid paying to export when the grid is overloaded.
Over 50% of all houses in South Australia have solar panels, house battery installation has skyrocketed, and there are many days when the grid is 100% powered by rooftop solar alone – not counting commercial solar plants or wind power, which we also have an abundance of.
New interstate grid connectors are being built and old ones upgraded to try to export more excess energy instead of curtailing renewable power.
Just going to most of this comment I’ve already made:
And the rest of the infrastructure?
The diesel trucks that transport everything at every level of industry? The diesel heavy machinery that builds the buildings, roads, etc? The ships that everything thing is imported and exported by? What about everything made from petroleum products?
Fossil fuels are used at every level for so many things and the price of them going up will drive the price of everything that needs them up.
There’s no escaping fossil fuels. You buy any sort of product and I can say with near certainty that fossil fuels got it to you.
I live in South Australia where the wholesale electricity price frequently goes negative during the day because there is too much solar power.
I could fully charge my car 2-3 times per day from the amount of solar power my house generates. I’m frequently turning down my solar inverters (automated) to avoid paying to export when the grid is overloaded.
Over 50% of all houses in South Australia have solar panels, house battery installation has skyrocketed, and there are many days when the grid is 100% powered by rooftop solar alone – not counting commercial solar plants or wind power, which we also have an abundance of.
New interstate grid connectors are being built and old ones upgraded to try to export more excess energy instead of curtailing renewable power.
Just going to most of this comment I’ve already made:
And the rest of the infrastructure?
The diesel trucks that transport everything at every level of industry? The diesel heavy machinery that builds the buildings, roads, etc? The ships that everything thing is imported and exported by? What about everything made from petroleum products?
Fossil fuels are used at every level for so many things and the price of them going up will drive the price of everything that needs them up.
There’s no escaping fossil fuels. You buy any sort of product and I can say with near certainty that fossil fuels got it to you.