821: AI and Solar Power: Making Renewable Energy Available 24/7 | Martin Hermann of BrigthNight Power
What if a renewable energy power plant could achieve capacity factors above 70%? Wouldn’t that make it, finally, FIRM baseload power, dispatchable and “reliable” for the grid?
Can ai help? What else is required?
The simple answer is hybridization, but a long-time industry pioneer is here to tell us more.
Martin Hermann has spent the last 2 decades pioneering the future of utility-scale solar. From founding 8minutenergy, one of the first to bring Utility-scale solar parks to the US, to launching BrightNight, focused now on making solar dispatchable, Martin’s mission has stayed consistent: make…
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