Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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While solar power is great and possibly the future, I sure hope they fully thought this through. A lot of areas with large numbers of solar panels are struggling to manage overcapacity. Solar energy produced is not always sent to the grid but wasted, as there is often not enough grid-scale storage capacity to absorb it. I’m no expert, but I wonder if mandating smart in-home sodium-ion batteries which intelligently charge and discharge based on grid capacity wouldn’t be more effective.
Too much solar? How California found itself with an unexpected energy challenge

As California works towards its ambitious clean energy vision, an almost counterintuitive challenge has emerged: The state is, at times, generating more solar than it can handle.

NBC News

Best way to deal with this is to have a few hours of rolling blackouts everywhere a few hours per day.

People will get batteries.

Yeah that’ll surely be great news for all the hospitals and people with medical devices at home. After a few dozen deaths battery sales will be through the roof!
Its not hard to keep power on at hospitals and 911 centers and blackout elsewhere. This is frequently done in poor countries. I think rich countries van figure out too…