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Not really, you mainly need it during the day for commercial demand. At the moment we're still in the phase of "negative demand" in almost all countries, where there's no question of storage and it just manifests as the ability to turn fossil power stations off. The UK has at the moment turned off most of its coal generation capacity for the summer.

(Is there a US equivalent of http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ ?)




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