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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (101046)	11/4/2018 9:18:40 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 364727

Take any energy intensive industrial process (assuming the energy input can be electricity) and build plants that instead of running 24/7 only run during peak energy production periods of time (say 8 hours/day). They can then be used a topping cycle loads for the power grid when excess renewable energy is on the grid, something that is becoming an increasing problem. So rather than store the energy for later use, build loads that only use it when its available. The problem is that a plant that only runs 1/3 of the time cost more to build for the same output capacity vs one that runs 24/7, so that differential in plant cost is the effective cost of matching it to the energy production.