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Diablo Canyon produces ~2 gigawatts of power rain or shine. Let's say you need 12 hours of battery capacity, so 24 gWh. A casual google search says grid-scale
by stickfigure 3y ago
Diablo Canyon produces ~2 gigawatts of power rain or shine.
Let's say you need 12 hours of battery capacity, so 24 gWh.
A casual google search says grid-scale storage is $300-600 per kWh. Even generously assuming $300/kWh, that's $7.2 billion just for the batteries. How long do the batteries last?
- beders 3y ago[flagged]
- kelnos 3y agoI wouldn't call 8.5% insignificant. It's certainly not a majority, or even a plurality, but "insignificant" is surely downplaying its importance. And if we shut down Diablo Canyon today, what do you think would replace that 8.5% in the years before a replacement solar+battery field could come online? Probably gonna be more natural gas.
- anonporridge 3y ago8.5% out of one plant for the entire state of California is fucking enormously significant.
- vlovich123 3y agoI know right? Like install 3-5 more and California would be net 0 for the electricity grid making all those EVs finally meaningfully beneficial to the environment.
- Tuna-Fish 3y agoNot with the $6B. The math just doesn't work, even if the solar was free, you could not purchase enough batteries with $6B to replace Diablo Canyon.
- Fauntleroy 3y agoAre you going to provide a logical argument or just point to a pie chart and say "hey look nuclear is the smallest!"?