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Tuna-Fishtoday at 2:36 PM1 replyview on HN

The Australian grid presently curtails ~7-18% of production every single day between 11:00 and 14:00.

I believe that incentivizing people to acquire batteries is precisely the purpose of the policy. It's good for the grid for there to be a lot of storage at the edges. As I understand it, the 24kWh cap is subject to annual review, with it being reduced/the policy being soft phased out once curtailment is no longer necessary.


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markvdbtoday at 9:26 PM

The core of the EU system is much more elegant. It sets a day-ahead production price per 15 minutes at auction. In EU countries with reasonable distribution cost, dynamic rates are a quite popular way to shift consumption to when cheap electricity is abundant.

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