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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by volkl48 on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:55PM (#20423894)
Yeah. I keep an eye on ISO-NE's (New England's grid) real-time charts (so as to reduce my impact on peak load days), and the daily peak load in summer up here is typically 17:30-18:30 or so, not the middle of the day when solar is peaking.

https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts

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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by ZeroGravitas on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:26PM (#20424176)
I think you're misreading those graphs.

As an individual then yes you can reduce your peak load on the grid by reducing power in the evening. But that is only the case because other people have already massively reduced the peak during the day by installing solar, see this graph they provide:

https://www.iso-ne.com/about/what-we-do/in-depth/solar-power...

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