> Thanks for the site: it's a good tool to demonstrate just how unfeasible energy storage really is. Turns out even good tools can give bad results if intentio

> Thanks for the site: it's a good tool to demonstrate just how unfeasible energy storage really is. Turns out even good tools can give bad results if intentionally used in bad faith. If you include a small amount of dispatch to represent long distance transmission, biogas or hydro things change dramatically. Prices are for real finished projects, and are going down for wind, solar, and storage very rapidly. 10% Dispatch: https://model.energy/?results=99cee0624b3f3f84ed7fe4f03b968cad#solve https://model.energy/?results=99cee0624b3f3f84ed7fe4f03b968c... 5% Dispatch: https://model.energy/?results=50ab975942dbab37b25ef471759b4d92#solve https://model.energy/?results=50ab975942dbab37b25ef471759b4d... 2.5% Dispatch: https://model.energy/?results=524af6e91d482ff646b2a9fcbff5a18a#solve https://model.energy/?results=524af6e91d482ff646b2a9fcbff5a1... At 2.5% even using gas for dispatch would only add 10g of CO2 per kWh to the total. Well within the error margins of estimates from various low carbon sources and significantly less than taking a year longer to build out low carbon generation. Restricting scope to subsets of the country: PNW with no offshore wind because it has the worse renewable resources: 15% dispatch + imports and 9hr storage: https://model.energy/?results=a72cdef1b55cc6a27ce7b9ba9c534ede#solve https://model.energy/?results=a72cdef1b55cc6a27ce7b9ba9c534e... West virginia is similar: https://model.energy/?results=adcdcd3d6e54c0c80b0bb39ebe75c5bf#solve https://model.energy/?results=adcdcd3d6e54c0c80b0bb39ebe75c5... California with 5% dispatch: https://model.energy/?results=b3166c36c03318779a65aef9d2f48268#solve https://model.energy/?results=b3166c36c03318779a65aef9d2f482...