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0 pointsinfinityio4y ago0 comments

Based upon the UK's National Grid Data (https://grid.iamkate.com/) I would disagree with you - It seems that peak demand lies at about 6PM, and solar peaks about 11:30AM - This leads to a significant increase in fossil fuel consumption around this time

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freeflight4y ago

The UK is a curious example to use for this, afaik a big part of that "peak demand" is people starting up their electric tea kettles in a phenomenon known as TV pickup [0]

For contrast, here are the stats for Germany [1] and the consumption peaks during the day contrast very well with the night consumption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

[1] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...

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