The annular solar eclipse will render more than a third of US solar energy capacity unavailable at some point tomorrow—enough to power about 20 million homes. Grid operators have backup plans.
For those in charge of converting solar radiation into electricity, that remaining fraction provides little comfort. From California to Texas, grid operator estimates indicate that more than a third of the country’s solar capacity—enough to power about 20 million homes—will be unavailable at some point during the three-hour celestial event tomorrow, presenting a test for electric grids. The challenge is twofold.
To cope with the eclipse, grid operators need to line up enough alternative power sources to fill tomorrow’s gap. The lineup will be decided day-of, but will potentially include firing up natural gas plants earlier in the day, as well as tapping grid-scale batteries that have been charged overnight. Perhaps even trickier is smoothly getting all the solar generation capacity back online a few hours later, when the sun is even higher in the sky, without discombobulating the grid.
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