Inefficient grid management and integration of renewable energy sources leading to potential overload and underutilization

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2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 6 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “>Reasonable point, but I feel my case still stands: the population able to make these changes could do so, enabling existing infra (and housing stock) to "go further" before requiring expensive and disruptive overhaul. I'm sorry but as an outsider to me this straight up just sounds like kicking the can down the road! Let's get it fixed, build more solar, get more power in the grid, deregulate personal solar so its an attractive incentive to get more people generating power, etc.. Rather than "you need to use less" mentality, especially while people literally die to the heatwaves the UK has been getting recently.. It's been pretty clear that globally the grid operators are all very much lazy and would rather increase prices and reap benefits short term than adding more capacity to the grid, even where i live (in Brazil) its very much clear that grid operators too would rather raise your bill and collude to add more taxes if you want to generate your own solar than to get more supply in the grid and make the bills cheaper (we have a minimum bill you have to pay even if you have full self-generated solar AND a thing called a "solar tax" ”

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• “This where system thinking, or the lack there of, becomes an issue. You would be right if we only had exactly enough capacity for four hours of power. But of course with batteries now being produced by the multiple twh per year, each of them capable of cycling on a daily basis for a decade or longer, we soon will have quite a bit of battery connected to the grid. If you have a hundred of those four hour systems connected you'd blow fuses throughout the country if you dumped all that power on the grid all at once. That could be days of power under normal usage. And grids can actually be connected together via cables now. The cliche is that solar panels don't generate at night. But if you connect grids via a long cable running east to west you can actually have solar power at night. And when you connect them north to south you can have solar power on a dark winter day as well. And when you add batteries to the mix (on both sides), you can keep those charged as well and use that power regardless of what time or season it is. And that's ignoring wind (on and offshore), hydro, nuclear, and other clean forms of power that we currently don't use at scale (geothermal, f”

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