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Grid scale storage solutions are already commercially viable in may areas power provisioning, and have a crossover market in auto battery development. Companies
by dv_dt 8y ago
Grid scale storage solutions are already commercially viable in may areas power provisioning, and have a crossover market in auto battery development. Companies are already bidding projects with renewable+storage mixes at costs already even to lower than nuclear. There is no reason to wait - structuring for nuclear is just a huge financial drag.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lightsource-solar-bids-energy-storage-west-of-the-colorado https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lightsource-sol...
https://www.energy-storage.news/news/jp-morgan-buys-into-10.7gw-solar-plus-storage-pipeline https://www.energy-storage.news/news/jp-morgan-buys-into-10....
- DennisP 8y agoThose articles don't have numbers on how much energy they store. So far I haven't seen any that could get through a windless night. Recently I ran the numbers on Tesla's big battery project, and for that much storage it cost significantly more than nuclear. Costs are going down, but MSRs look a lot cheaper than conventional nuclear too, so if we're going to look to the future let's do it with both.