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There is a new installation in Oregon that uses solar + wind + lithium batteries. https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2022/09/north-americas-first-wind-sola
by joveian 4y ago
There is a new installation in Oregon that uses solar + wind + lithium batteries.
https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2022/09/north-americas-first-wind-solar-battery-hybrid-power-plant-commissioned-in-oregon.html https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2022/09/north-america...
It seems like there should be better options than lithium batteries but for some reason they decided to use them.
- kube-system 4y agoYeah, it can store 120 megawatt hours of power, which is pretty big, but the largest pumped storage battery in the US stores 24,000 megawatt hours of power and started operation 36 years ago.