Grid storage isn't needed before the grid is at least 50% renewable (and I don't mean "once in a blue moon more than 50% of demand is satisfied by renewable ele

Grid storage isn't needed before the grid is at least 50% renewable (and I don't mean "once in a blue moon more than 50% of demand is satisfied by renewable electricity, I mean baseline"); in fact it's hard to justify building a lot of storage out before renewables give them lots of stuff to balance. Grid storage is eventually needed, but the discussion around batteries is kind of like demanding your website be "web scale" when you've had less than 100 visitors a day for the past year. Like, I'm all for planning ahead but is this really our priority? Meanwhile, if we reduce our emissions by 10% today, then we have 10%(ish) more time to get rid of the remaining 90%. Our deadline isn't time, it's CO2e emitted. In other words: Grid storage should not be taken into account, because the only way it becomes important soon is if we buy ourselves a lot of time to deal with it by majorly cutting emissions. People focus too much on "100% renewables by 20XX" and not enough on "50% renewables by ASAP". I'm sure there's a better way of phrasing that, because "[thing] should be taken into account" is basically an applause light and I'm contradicting it, but you get the idea.