Comment by wcoenen
2 days ago
Presumably the negatively priced energy came from solar panels, so those sun rays were going to heat the planet anyway. The same still happens with a dummy load, just with extra steps in between to convert to and from electricity.
With enough solar panels deployed, you could still argue that they change the albedo of the Earth and therefore it's temperature.
Related, do Solar PV panels need any extra equipment to curtail instead of feeding into the grid?
Aside from software integration to remotely control household PV systems, is there anything else needed to curtail during negative price events?
If the inverter is smart enough, nothing else would be necessary
Thanks! Google managed to find more details on Reddit when I searched now
https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1iu2kkz/solar_curta...
Not necessarily. There's also reflection involved.
Now to figure out how much exactly you need to take into account the solar panel absorption spectrum & the albedo of the earth.