The problem is that they’re being taken offline when energy is cheap. Again, just don’t be so quick to offline. It’s a policy change.
They do with ANY power source.
TV pickup for example:
Well, when the popular soap Eastenders comes to an end five times a week, the grid has to deal with around 1.75 million kettles requiring power at the same time. That’s an additional 3 gigawatts of power for the roughly 3-5 minutes it takes each kettle to boil. So big is the surge that backup power stations have to go on standby across the country, and there’s even additional power made available in France just in case the UK grid can’t cope.
Excess power from solar & wind - leading other generators to be taken offline - is a new twist, but not much different a problem. Like the TV Pickup problem, they need to put policies in place to handle it. Like not shutting off generators.
