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goobster  ·  1276 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Something funny is about to happen to some prices

The last comment on the article talks about nuclear plants pumping water to top-of-mountain reservoirs, and then using the downhill water flow to power things later; the reservoir is the power storage.

A similar thing could happen here, as well. Melt salt. Boil water. Pump water up an incline. Any of those things could be used to "store" the excess power until needed.

As well as batteries, of course.

There may still be a tipping point where power utilities are paying people to take power away - you can only store so much, after all - but I expect it is further down the road than it looks. Power companies are devious fuckers, and will do whatever they can to hold their ground.