Turn them into tanning lamps?
Tax it, that’s what they do
Buy a bunch of Musk batteries.. Millions of them and build power reserve facilities to house arrays of them. Damn the smelt and tortoises.. And birds.
I’m sure some is being sold on the grid here in Nevada. Prices are actually dropping (some of that is due, I’m sure, to reduced economic activity).
Other than that, they can certainly put together some large-scale bird frying exhibits.
Why wouldn’t they have the gas-powered generators turned off instead? Oh yeah, that would affect PG&E’s profits...
Other forms of electrical generation power down during periods of low demand. Why is this an issue?
Summer will solve that.
Instead of shutting down the solar plants they could run giant arc welders that incinerate the mutilated carcasses of birds killed by windmills as a green energy performance art piece.
It would be so educational.
Sunny Day Tax is a solution.
remove the solar farm operating subsidies, tax credits and accelerated depreciation allowances - they will be inop within hours.
That problem was solved almost 50 years ago.
California's San Luis dam.
The secret: Pump water to a storage lake higher than the solar generating site, and as close to it as possible to minimize transmission losses.
Reverse the flow of water at night through hydro-generators to provide most of the power back into the power grid. The nighttime demand is never zero...
The only requirement is finding a nearby site for the dam/lake.
Smarter specialists than me can figure that one out...
And there you have it...
Government morons decide “you have to produce solar” with no clue as to variable market and weather conditions, and you ed up with this. Generating too much electricity????? a private company would never get into this position.
Why not sell it? (or would that be capitalism and so evil)
I suspected this was an exaggeration but discovered on wiki that they have a lot more solar power installed than I realized.