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How can solar production not be modulated technically (in practice they won't as long as there's fossil power in the grid which solarhas priority over)?

You can easily disconnect solar plants from the grid - even remotely if the situation requires it (technically even gradually if it is supported by the specific plant). This is required by law in e.g. Germany: the higher the peak power the higher the requirements in flexibility generally speaking



On/off is exactly the opposite of modulation


Wikipedia:

> On–off keying (OOK) denotes the simplest form of amplitude-shift keying (ASK) modulation that represents digital data as the presence or absence of a carrier wave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%E2%80%93off_keying

Idk how you define modulation. Note that on/off isn't a worldwide switch, but only one for tiny units with respect to the whole energy grid


I mean the ability to regulate the power output, dispatch.

The page you googled has nothing to do with how the power grid operates.


It has something to do with modulation. And my post contains more than a linked page




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