Batteries handle considerably more than 0.001% of the grid in California, and they are buying large scale battery installations like a drunken environmentalist.

Batteries handle considerably more than 0.001% of the grid in California, and they are buying large scale battery installations like a drunken environmentalist. And the batteries are getting cheaper. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-battery-installations-soared-in-2022-reshaping-power-grids/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-battery-insta... That is from 2022. From what I could gleam from a paywalled Bloomberg article, 2023 continued the growth curve. Solar plus batteries are just cheaper and faster than nuclear. The pro nuclear argument would have won if we had started the carbon burn shutdown 20 years ago but they snoozed while the mad environmentalists successfully pushed solar and cell phones pushed batteries into economic dominance.