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The 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 large
by sjwright 7y ago
The 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.