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Cool, but is there a way to store electricity generated by renewables? I have no interest in candle light dinner on dark winter day without much wind.
by lnsru 4y ago
Cool, but is there a way to store electricity generated by renewables? I have no interest in candle light dinner on dark winter day without much wind.
- eis 4y agoOf course there is. Hydro storage is probably the biggest one that has been in use for decades. You pump water up a mountain during over supply and then let it run down through turbines during times where there is no wind/solar etc. There are plenty other methods to store energy but most involve gravity. Batteries can be used for small scale rapid reactions to changes in demand or production. Actually fully switching to EVs as a side effect can create a distributed system of energy storage.
- tmtvl 4y agoBattery storage seems to be working for Australia (https://www.energy-storage.news/australia-surpassed-1gwh-of-annual-battery-storage-deployments-during-2021/ https://www.energy-storage.news/australia-surpassed-1gwh-of-...).