Vielleicht zum ersten Mal liefen in Kalifornien Batterien und Solaranlagen im Versorgungsmaßstab rund um die Uhr – technisch gesehen etwas differenzierter, aber es ist eine Premiere. „Wenn die Sonne untergeht, steigen die Batterien: 24/7-Solarenergie in Kalifornien“

California’s main power grid, which tracks and publishes all electricity generation sources real time, showed earlier this month that from the time the sun went down, batteries ran on their main power grid, all the way until the sun came up the next day.

While technically, this can be achieved in multiple ways to just ‚make it happen‘ and manipulate things to get a nice press release, this even occurred because of economic reasons. The batteries had charged on cheap solar, maybe even free because it is daytime stuff that would have been curtailed, and many different batteries probably randomly chose to run their system’s overnight. The overnight is probably a bit more nuanced too though as it probably wasn’t one battery, but probably many turning on and off to charge and export at various moment, threading themselves together.