alt Hacker News> On the other hand California do have an absolutely massive air conditioning load in the summer.
Well good for them but the vast majority of the western world has the opposite load, reduced load in summer where the panels operate full capacity and massive consumption when they produce close to nothing.
> In 2025 alone China added 168 GWh of storage.
Great, and they use over 1400 GWh per day.
In 2025 alone, it means they added an astonishing 3h of electricity storage (I'm rounding it up for you as a bonus)
> In 2025 alone, it means they added an astonishing 3h of electricity storage (I'm rounding it up for you as a bonus)
That’s really good isn’t it?
It would be unusual for solar to produce zero during the day, and the night is presumably going to be around 12 hours (in terms of solar generation). Energy usage is presumably less at night too.
The storage is already meaningful, with 3 of the 12 hours of zero generation covered (assuming usage is flat over a 24 hour period, which it isn’t), and if they keep adding at that pace it’ll be very significant.
Am I missing something?