Solar and Wind Curtailment: A Liability or Asset for Decarbonizing the Grid?

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By info@greentechmedia.comJun 26, 2019, 11:33 am238 pts
Historically, we’ve thought about curtailment as a waste of valuable clean electricity — a financial penalty for renewable generators who need to monetize every last electron. It’s already an issue today. California has so much solar power, in certain months it is dialing back tens of thousands of…

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