>The overprovisioning of solar is going to create so much cheap surplus energy during summer and during the day
I associated this cheap power during summer days as when prices approach zero or even go negative. Power you have to pay to have somebody take is worse than worthless!
So some days the power is cheap but it still costs a lot for transformers, grid interconnections, power lines, battery systems if you want power on a cloudy day, so any solar farm that gets built has to cover financing of those costs, which means power is also expensive some of the time.
We can’t both have power so cheap we can dream up ways to use it when it is practically free and also be able to pay for it to be built and maintained.
I associated this cheap power during summer days as when prices approach zero or even go negative. Power you have to pay to have somebody take is worse than worthless!
So some days the power is cheap but it still costs a lot for transformers, grid interconnections, power lines, battery systems if you want power on a cloudy day, so any solar farm that gets built has to cover financing of those costs, which means power is also expensive some of the time.
We can’t both have power so cheap we can dream up ways to use it when it is practically free and also be able to pay for it to be built and maintained.