Past a point it is cheaper to overbuild solar than to add batteries, because a battery kept for the rare bad day is barely used.

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batteries Storage as the thing that decides how much intermittent generation is worth building.

On the topicHow cheap does solar get, and what does that change?under our view: The grid stops being a grid once the panels are nearly free

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What Casey Handmer actually said

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Data centres will end up net suppliers of power to their communities, because a solar plant big enough to keep the machines running spills most of what it makes.

Data centres end up net power suppliers only because they are built the way Handmer says high-capex loads should be built: overbuild the array rather than buy batteries for the rare bad day. The spilled 75% that becomes the neighbourhood’s power is that overbuild.

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