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People don't seem to have read the article or seem to understand anything at all.
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People want to eat their cake and have it too. The grid is old as fuck and is built for a easy system where plants can reliably come online and run all day. They have inertia and can balance the grid. The value of a traditional plant is higher than that of a solar plant. Solar absolutely has additional costs to the grid and that shouldn't be ignored. So the only way for solar to compete is to be cheaper, which it is. But those added costs need to be recouped for investment. That's all that the article is saying.
This amout of solar is absoultely causing the grid problems that no grid in the world has ever seen before solar became a thing. But it can be fixed, it just takes investment.
on the internet everyone is their own expert and reading is below oneself. i get all my opinions from the headlines and the top two upvoted snarky comments ✨🧚♀️