Solar power’s greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It looks like a duck.
Paul Denholm (EAP ’04), Principal Energy Analyst at the National Energy Renewable Laboratory, was recently interviewed by Vox about the origins of the “Duck Curve,” which demonstrates one of the major challenges of integrating large amounts of solar energy into the electric grid. Denholm told the EAP program, “I actually started generating net load curves with …