this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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Both? Both.
Unless you don't mind having no power in the evening/night.
Batteries exist you donkey
If only there was some way to store excess power generated during the day for use at night... Oh well, guess we'll just keep burning oil and destroying the climate.
If only there were other methods for generating and storing electricity! Imagine if we could, say, use water to turn turbines, or the wind to spin generators, and then we could store that in grid level batteries.
The first 100M you buy the panels. The second 100M you buy the batteries for the panels.
Battery storage is only for real people.