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Re:Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables by maxerickson on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:20PM (#11903563)
At least one of the early large scale pumped storage plants[1] was financed by power companies to optimize their internal costs. So it's long been the case that time arbitrage is a good idea for power production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...

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Re:Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables by DennisP on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:37PM (#11903738)
Pumped storage is a very cheap way to store energy, but unfortunately its scale is limited by geography.

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...

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