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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Just send the electricity to a neighbouring state. Sure, it'll be really inefficient to pass it through that massive length of cable, but that's fine, we don't care about that. If the interstate power infrastructure doesn't have enough capacity then first priority should be to upgrade it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

America is severly lacking in UHVDC.

The peak of power demand is behind the peak of production. So sending power east makes so much sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That's one of the options they mention as a solution.

Basically store it, use it, ship it, subsidize it or pay someone to waste it are the options.

Right now they pay someone to waste it, which is the option that makes adoption the most difficult, so it's a problem.