The links provided are neither primary sources nor do they support your original statement. ”The key thing is, energy production is cheap these days.” This is

The links provided are neither primary sources nor do they support your original statement. ”The key thing is, energy production is cheap these days.” This is immaterial if cheap energy is unavailable when needed. See: winter (season) “So storing energy has to compete against just building even more production and a small amount of storage.” This is incorrect. More production is useless if the output is zero. Zero times a large number is still zero. Again, see: winter (season) ”This applies to batteries as much as it does to hydro. But batteries scale down better.” The problem with batteries is that they don’t scale up.