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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by Brometheus on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:29AM (#32766071)
The surplus will be available soon. If you look at the trajectories of the installed capacity, it's obvious.

Germany is in the process to switch over to electricity for heating, too. There are a lot of incentitives to install new heatpumps for example.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by simiones on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:32AM (#32766121)
Let's first have that surplus, and then we can discuss how to use it.

Edit: Having a mostly renewable grid with backup coal/gas/nuclear is much much easier than having an entirely renewable grid.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by Brometheus on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:47AM (#32766389)
A surplus is already generated on specific days. At the moment the extra energy is thrown away, in case you didn't know.
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