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Your storage system must be able to store enough energy to cover the cumulative output of the peaker plant in order for it to be able to replace the peaker plan
by nordify 11y ago
Your storage system must be able to store enough energy to cover the cumulative output of the peaker plant in order for it to be able to replace the peaker plant.
That's a lot of storage. And you need to have enough overgeneration to be able to reliable fill it up daily. This sounds very expensive. Could it really work from an economic perspective?
- dragontamer 11y agoIt already does work. https://www.dom.com/corporate/what-we-do/electricity/generation/hydro-power-stations/bath-county-pumped-storage-station https://www.dom.com/corporate/what-we-do/electricity/generat... This worked in 1970. Why wouldn't it work today? Energy storage solutions are deployed around the nation, and world, for this very reason. The main advantage is that energy storage today is more efficient, with new technologies coming out.
- nordify 11y ago> The main advantage is that energy storage today is more efficient, with new technologies coming out. But not cheaper or anywhere close to the scale of pumped hydro? Hydro requires favorable geography and/or rebuilding the grid to cope with the extremely large flows required to keep up with storage. So, energy storage works, but is not economically feasible other than as research projects outside of hydro? Looks like peaker plants are here to stay for a very long time.