One brazillion solar plants shut down in California - No one notices. [View All]

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The main reasons are that

1) the one brazillion solar plants have an extremely low capacity utilization. In fact, the things fail once every sideral day, sometimes - ironically when it is coldest - for more than 50% of the day.

2) Solar electricity is trivial form of energy and no one would dream of relying on solar electricity, unless of course you're talking about Mom's bartender's cousin's friend's hairdresser's dog's groomer's uncle's brother who lives off grid.

In other news, for several days this year, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Italy each experienced days where 0% of their energy was provided by wind power.