Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in...
by noneeeed on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:57AM
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People always nay-say demand management, but here in the UK the National Grid already does this. They have contracts with many large industrial companies who presumably get lower rates in return for being able to turn down their demand on request.
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Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in...
by noir_lord on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:11AM
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They do, agreements are typically in place with companies that use a lot of power but can live without it for a fair few hours.
aluminium production/smelting uses a colossal amount of electricity but they can shut down quickly for a few hours (as long as they don't let things get too cold and freeze which is expensive as it destroys equipment and takes a long time to restart - which is what happened in the ransomware attack against norsk, they had to switch to manual line processes to keep it moving).
For anyone interested the people responsible for monitoring our grid have a good website with a tonne of info.