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What to do with all this excess renewable energy?

Renewables prices plunged. Projects multiplied. Now, what to do with the extra electrons?

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October 16, 2023
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The Latitude podcast from Latitude Media
The Latitude podcast from Latitude Media

Renewables are now super cheap and abundant. We could install nearly a half terawatt of new wind and solar capacity this year, more than the entire capacity of China.

But with that surge comes a set of very pointed questions: what do we do with all those clean electrons on grids that don’t always value them — and can’t always handle them?

In this episode of The Latitude, editor Lisa Martine Jenkins presents a story from the pages of Latitude Media called “The excess renewables opportunity.

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