05-08-2025, 05:20 PM
(05-08-2025, 04:33 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(05-08-2025, 03:51 AM)plam Wrote: Usually one worries about peak demand and off-peak renewables generation, hence needs batteries, but I suspect that hydro should be able to play that role, with dams etc.
The natural gas plants are really for those peaks.
They are, but I think the point is that they need not be so, since hydro can act as a peak plant.
But that isn't how the Ontario grid works today.

