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Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not LOSING anything if it's capturing already excess energy, which would by its nature be lost if not used at the time of generation

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Neither solar panels, nor hydrogen generators are free. If you need to build extra panels and hydrogen generators, you are making the infrastructure more expensive, consequently raising electricity prices. Or hydrogen prices if you use it as fuel instead of power storage.