I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic models for Germany.
https://sonnenwende.codeberg.page/
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When you have solar on your roof, you can use this energy and sell the surplus to your neighbors.
But what happens, if all your neighbors have solar on their roof, too?
Will there be a market price at all in a solar-powered economy?
Or will system costs become the main factor in a calculation?
Or will we see negative prices + H₂ generation = zero sum with good weather and extreme prices during dunkelflaute?
And can these niches be enough for energy companies to survive?
@AdeptVeritatis @hweimer That's the reason why _building codes_ should nudge construction of East- & West-facing roofs, or the South-facing ones to be relatively vertical towards the winter sun.
Everyone optimising for their own maximum yield per year is doomed to favour alignment with Summer noons. It's only a 0-sum game _there/then_.
