In recent years in California, the duck curve has become a massive, deep canyon — and solar power is going unused. In 2022, the state wasted 2.4 million megawatt-hours of electricity, 95 percent ...

The main point to make is that we have a decent (if somewhat hazy) understanding of the long-term solutions to the duck curve, the kind of stuff we’ll be dealing with in 2050 when wind and solar ...

To mark the duck curve’s 10th birthday, I called Paul Denholm, the researcher who led that original group at NREL in March. He’s been at the lab since 2004, studying electricity systems and ...

Yesterday, December 26th, the battery storage systems delivered roughly 30MW of power for 45 minutes from 6:15 PM through 7:00 PM. The delivery phase started right around when the duck curve peaked.

The energy grid is vastly more complicated than it was ten years ago. The old model was to plug in and pay for what you use, but now the grid is starting… Flattening The Curve: Moving To A Two ...

You Be a Grid Master! We get questions from the utility industry. Here's your chance to show your expertise by providing answers. Best answer of the month wins a $50 gift card. Enter it in the comment ...

When the sun starts to set in California, there’s one thing you can count on: thousands of megawatts of natural gas-fired power plants quickly firing up to keep the state lit.

A video of astronaut Tim Peake conducting a physics experiment in front of a blue and white grid background has been misinterpreted by users online who claim that the background is chroma key ...