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I read that book at the time, and what I rememember from it was that on top of the things discussed in the article here, there was a fairly lengthy section on p
by physicsguy 3y ago
I read that book at the time, and what I rememember from it was that on top of the things discussed in the article here, there was a fairly lengthy section on peak demand and balancing that with renewables which are intermittent, which formed part of his conclusions.
- audunw 3y agoThat discussion is probably even more out of date by now. I can’t imagine anyone would predict the scale of battery production happening today. That’s already starting to help with frequency regulation and short term balancing. Then there are the dozens of energy storage solutions designed specifically for grid energy storage which are in early commercial development right now. Ambri’s molten metal battery is one I like to use as an example.
- physicsguy 3y agoThere's a long way to get there though - roughly adding ~0.5GW a year of battery storage in the UK and need ~40GW.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoNational Grid just announced that 10GW of storage (and 10GW of renewables) that was already in their connection queue got fast-forwarded by 4 years. The technical innovation was to tell the projects "don't use the local grid if it is already at full capacity" rather than wait 4 years to upgrade the network to a gold plated standard for no good reason.