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As you are surely already well aware, "going negative" for short moments does not indicate enough surplus renewable generating capacity to charge up storage.
by ncmncm 4y ago
As you are surely already well aware, "going negative" for short moments does not indicate enough surplus renewable generating capacity to charge up storage.
- Manuel_D 4y agoAs early as 2017, California started seeing hours of surplus electricity prices. Not minutes. Yet even after half a decade, the assurances that people would start storing and reselling this energy have not panned out. It turns out that white papers and prototypes are different from building the real thing. You can keep telling yourself that cheap, scalable energy storage is just around the corner. But fantasy is not reality, and energy storage remains a fantasy.
- ncmncm 4y agoYet, money in California is still better spent on renewable generating capacity, because there is is not enough of it yet to wholly displace fossil fuels. And, in fact, that is where money is still being spent, because they have a grid to run and nothing to prove to you.