Too Much Solar?
As more an more people put solar panels on their roof we are rapidly approaching the point where we will have too much power available in the middle of the day and not enough power at night.
Already in some areas the high voltages cause by solar panels feeding power into the grid is proving to be a problem. The grid was designed to feed power from a central location to distributed users not the other way round.
This will mean that the value of electricity during the day will plummet while at night time power will increase in value - virtually the opposite of the situation now
The only solution to this is power storage in the form of batteries (and smart meters) because otherwise the power homes are feeding into the grid will be virtually valueless.
Let's hope battery storage becomes a more economic proposition soon or that the electricity suppliers invest in batteries like the 100MWH Tesla battery in SA.