While Canada lags behind in solar adoption, many places including Germany, China, Japan and even the United States are moving quickly.

In fact, on certain days, some places are generating so much energy, the price to purchase it is dropping below zero, prompting concerns about storage capacity for the abundant power source.

  • sushimi@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    in NL, the sun rarely shines and especially doesn’t during the night. and since there’s no proper way to store huge amounts of electrical power during the day,

    • charging overnight isn’t an option
    • we’re left to feeding the exess power onto the grid