This is a good point. Renewable energy is getting so cheap that throwing kWh away can be cheaper than the cost of idling other capital infrastructure.
We will need to rethink a lot of our economic assumptions in energy very soon. Solar farms are already designed to produce 30% more DC energy than their inverters can handle, because it's the lowest cost balance between PV panel capacity and inverter capacity. If somebody has an application for DC energy that can be co-located at solar farms behind inverters, and can be economical running only a few hours a day, there's huge amounts of nearly free energy already available.
We will need to rethink a lot of our economic assumptions in energy very soon. Solar farms are already designed to produce 30% more DC energy than their inverters can handle, because it's the lowest cost balance between PV panel capacity and inverter capacity. If somebody has an application for DC energy that can be co-located at solar farms behind inverters, and can be economical running only a few hours a day, there's huge amounts of nearly free energy already available.