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Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

You only need a certain amount of power. (In fact, you can't generate more power than is needed, or you cause massive issues.) If this adds extra energy generation but doesn't add demand, generation somewhere else will be taken offline. This will be whatever is cheapest, and green energy is nearly free after construction, so it'll be dirty energy that isn't running anymore.