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Renewables (except hydro) have not driven a grid anywhere in the world, because storage is expensive both in $€ terms and in CO2/kWh terms. Maybe you’ll see the
by thatfrenchguy 4y ago
Renewables (except hydro) have not driven a grid anywhere in the world, because storage is expensive both in $€ terms and in CO2/kWh terms. Maybe you’ll see the California grid running in 20 years all on renewables + storage at a crazy high cost per kWh and a stupid CO2/kWh compared to nuclear, and that’s just because it’s sunny 300 days a year here!
- ncmncm 4y agoYou dearly wish for storage to be expensive, just as you used to wish solar PV would be. But you were wrong then, and you are wrong now.
- thatfrenchguy 4y agoI don’t, I want batteries to not pay PGE a shit ton of money. I’ve looked at prices, it’s just not happening.