| ▲ | rayiner 2 hours ago | |
> Their new coal plants do not run 24/7, they only run at night That’s baseload! Baseload is load you can’t turn off: the minimum load that’s required in a 24 hour period. It can be fulfilled with non-dispatchable sources, but it need not be. In this case, China is building coal plants to address the baseload that doesn’t go away at night when the solar isn’t producing. | ||
| ▲ | bryanlarsen 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
Note that China has started building battery banks at massive scale recently. | ||