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"Unfortunately, battery tech is not there yet to help with the supply-demand mismatches." Isn't this the situation that Elon's battery in South Australia was b
by prawn 7y ago
"Unfortunately, battery tech is not there yet to help with the supply-demand mismatches."
Isn't this the situation that Elon's battery in South Australia was built to handle? From what I understand, it's been profitable and successful.
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Without something to handle soaring peaks, a friend of mine who works in energy described the power landscape as like needing a 100-lane wide bridge to deal with peak-hour crossing a city river.
- sjwright 7y agoThe South Australia battery is profitable because it solves the problem of changes in demand over a period of seconds or minutes, filling the gaps while a larger fossil fuel plant manually ramps up to take over the load. It’s critically important and far more costly to do in other ways.
- IshKebab 7y agoIt's not just "seconds and minutes". It can provide 70 MW for 10 minutes and 30 MW for 3 hours.
- gervase 7y agoFrom the article, it seems they're dealing with demand fluctuations of 1000-3000 MW within a given hour (2PM was the example), so I think it's really working on a totally different scale. Even 10x as many batteries wouldn't be able to smooth that load fluctuation.