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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by amluto on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:10PM (#33735124)
The spreads are egregious, though. You can buy from PG&E for several hundred dollars per MWH. You can likely sell to them for a couple dollars per MWH. No, you do not get NEM for your neighborhood nuclear plant.

Or you can overprovision, discard unused output (or try to do something useful — even just heating up a big heat reservoir is useful for district heating if you feel like building out a system to deliver the heat), and still potentially win on overall price.

Large grids are economical when reasonably run. They are not economical when poorly run.

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Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microrea... by quickthrower2 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:23PM (#33735233)
That is horrendous. Battery it is!

Residential solar plans in Sydney would buy power back for about 5c US / kwh so $50 / mwh

Although I think their hand might be forced to encourage solar. They used to pay crazy high amounts.

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