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Seems like a missed opportunity. Millions of rolling batteries frequently plugged into the grid could be an energy storage pool to help balance fluctuating dema
by lovemenot 8y ago
Seems like a missed opportunity. Millions of rolling batteries frequently plugged into the grid could be an energy storage pool to help balance fluctuating demand and supply. Especially from renewable sources.
For this to work, it would require government co-ordination of infrastructure, incentives and regulations around feed-in tariffs.
There is no evidence in this report that the transport ministry has connected with the Energy ministry for strategic solutions.
- kwhitefoot 8y ago> For this to work, it would require government co-ordination Renault and the French government are discussing exactly this.
- lovemenot 8y agoGood for them. Seriously. Nerverthelss, in the case of France, it seems mostly redundant. 80% of supply being nuclear means there's much more baseload than variable supply. Storage would be less of a concern.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoThey have quite a large amount of installed wind power some of which is underutilised precisely because of the large nuclear baseload. Having dispatchable battery storage would enable more of the turbines to run more of the time. I drove from Caen to Bordeaux and then to Luxembourg at the end of May, there were wind turbines all over the place.
- brohee 8y agoAnd we don't have any offshore wind farms yet, but they are coming...