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The article indicated the demonstration project will install ten 10 MW batteries at solar or wind farms and provides no information about how these installation
by liketochill 4y ago
The article indicated the demonstration project will install ten 10 MW batteries at solar or wind farms and provides no information about how these installation would allow for 100% inverter based energy. The peak demand on the WECC region is 170 GW.
It would be more impressive if they took these batteries to one of the Hawaiian islands where 100% renewable between wind and solar should be possible with only 100-200MW of load. Feed an isolated system like that for a year from wind solar and batteries and then I think you can say we are 100% ready
- toomuchtodo 4y agohttps://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-winds-up-2021-with-smashing-new-renewables-record/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-winds-up-2021-wi... https://electrek.co/2022/06/27/tesla-megapacks-replace-hawaii-last-remaining-coal-plant/ https://electrek.co/2022/06/27/tesla-megapacks-replace-hawai... https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/powering-grid-forming-inverters https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/powering-grid-for... Arguably, we’re ready enough (citations above). The only way to prove it is to do it, although I think these tests can occur in parallel vs serially.
- verdverm 4y agoThe main problem is that the grid is not ready for transition off of fossil fuels, the capacity is not there for transmission. They would need to at least double capacity iirc