And what do you do at 6pm in the UK on Friday the 23rd of December this year and there's a large high pressure system sitting over the UK?
Sunset is at 3.58.
Windspeeds are low with large high pressure systems. It's cold. It's dark.
It's the highest demand time of day, people have the heating on, they're cooking dinner, they've got the TV and the lights on and you're out of renewable generating capacity.
What do you do if you're National Grid?
That's right, you spin up the gas turbines.
Lower cost or more efficient solar panels will do nothing for you at that point.
Solar contributed a total of 0% of the UK's energy mix in Dec 2021 according to National Grid, vs 7.3% in June:
https://www.nationalgrideso.com/electricity-explained/electricity-and-me/great-britains-monthly-electricity-stats
Biting the hand that feeds IT
