Or do, depending on who’s building what

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I’m not saying factories should be forced to switch machinery like with ripple control systems in Soviet countries (contactors in households and industry switching based on signals superimposed on the 50Hz grid), there should just be an appropriate economic incentive in doing so. If it’s not enough to offset equipment cost, the factories can ignore it.

There is a lot of operations that aren’t timing-critical (their work is cumulative) and can be made cheaper by only using excess energy in daytime.

• Pumped hydro
• Charging grid-tied batteries and EVs
• Air heating/conditioning (especially when used with physical heat storage)
• Water heating/cooling for residential use
• Water heating for pools
• Reverse osmosis
• Furnaces in glass/metal/aluminum factories, crematoriums etc.
• Computation-heavy tasks (AI training, simulations, rendering, crypto mining…)

Solar can be built wherever there’s demand for any of these, right? Also, more customers should adopt a real-time energy pricing model.