Comment by kolinko
2 days ago
If power use is an issue during heat waves, it means the construction of solar capacity was messed up somewhere in the process.
In Poland/EU during summer we have electricity surplus, not deficit.
2 days ago
If power use is an issue during heat waves, it means the construction of solar capacity was messed up somewhere in the process.
In Poland/EU during summer we have electricity surplus, not deficit.
It just depends on how the electricity is spent. If you have lots of electric heaters and no air conditioning in your country, then the demand is high in winter and low in summer. But if it's the other way around then the demand peeks during heat waves.
Our current solar capacity / peak generation is roughly enough to cover ACs if we had 90% (like US) generation, not 10%. On top of that we have other sources which we need anyway for winter.
Oregon was very slow do adapt solar due to poor regulation and other reasons. It even says so in the article.