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Re:Finland's average electricity price slips into negative t... by Incipient on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:04PM (#36066650)
Sure but all of these use cases are entirely different to a production plant, say an oil refinery.

A synthetic fuel refinery can operate 24/7, so would be budgeted to do so.

I could potentially see a hydrogen "battery"/electrolysis setup absorbing excess power in an affordable way, but I'm just saying to date I haven't seen a single one.

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Re:Finland's average electricity price slips into negative t... by Retric on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:15PM (#36066706)
Ahh, I was going for Major Capital project.

The closest thing to a low utilization fuel refinery is probably some desalination plants. Very high energy costs + wild demand swings means some shutdown quite a bit.

There is a few some hydrogen manufacturing plants which only operate on very cheap renewable electricity. However, as I understand it those are currently operated as relatively inexpensive test facilities.

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