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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 98 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And with battery prices falling, the intermittency issues that made LNG useful despite the drawbacks is gradually becoming much less of a problem too.

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Plus it's pretty easy to simply shift the time of use to when there's the most clean capacity online (and this is easily encouraged with variable electricity rates)

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 point 7 months ago

I wouldn't say 'easily'. I live in a country with a so-called 'liberalized' electricity market, and although I'm enough of a software developer to have custom scripts to pull the daily market hourly prices, I still wouldn't call it easy to schedule around. And most people really don't have the kind of options my expertise grants me.

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