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All of the above facts are exactly correct. There is a huge financial incentive for storage. Right now. And yet the storage is not being built in any meaningfu
by rsj_hn 5y ago
All of the above facts are exactly correct. There is a huge financial incentive for storage. Right now.
And yet the storage is not being built in any meaningful sense. At best we have "ideas" but these have not been actually deployed at scale. People keep throwing out ideas, but when there is a crunch they fly in diesel generators or add gas peaker plants.
That alone should tell you how expensive the storage problem is to address. It's a very hard problem.
- naasking 5y agoThis just isn't correct. There are dozens of pilot projects for novel grid storage systems being built right now all around the world, and existing battery based grid storage like Tesla's megapack have multiple installations already in use, and dozens more planned this year. Pumped hydro alone is already in the hundreds of GW range. The reason grid storage hasn't been built is because batteries were too expensive, but more importantly, grid storage was never needed. It takes 5-10 years for new tech to see widespread deployments, and it's only been a few years that grid storage had been getting this investment.
- rsj_hn 5y agome: At best we have "ideas" but these have not been actually deployed at scale. you: This just isn't correct. There are dozens of pilot projects for novel grid storage Really not sure what else needs to be said, so this is where I need to disengage.
- naasking 5y agoAnd as I said, we have hundreds of 100MWh+ battery plants, and hundreds of GWh of pumped hydro. The idea that they haven't been deployed at scale is just wrong.