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Battery storage is still too expensive and limited, 'power to gas' is a pipe dream (no pun intended) for now and unlikely to be available for local storage. Thi
by the_third_wave 2y ago
Battery storage is still too expensive and limited, 'power to gas' is a pipe dream (no pun intended) for now and unlikely to be available for local storage. This is not a solved problem and it is the major factor in keeping back solar and (to a lesser extent) wind.
- LUmBULtERA 2y agoIt may not be a solved problem entirely, but there is so much battery storage in interconnection queues right now across the US that here, at least, the bottleneck is regulatory and interconnection cost, not the cost of battery storage itself. See, e.g.: https://emp.lbl.gov/queues https://emp.lbl.gov/queues
- 7thaccount 2y agoYou have to take the queues with a grain of salt as there is so much speculation going on where a developer submits 20 projects to multiple queues at the different ISOs in order to find the best project with the lowest upgrade costs.
- LUmBULtERA 2y agoNo one is claiming everything in the queues will be built. But I'm talking about identifying bottlenecks. Also as some projects are removed from the queue, other projects will enter it, so the ratio of types of projects in the queues is relevant as well.
- guerby 2y agoLFP battery is below $100/kWh at the cell level ($87/kWh free delivery here https://batteryfinds.com https://batteryfinds.com for example), if you count on 5000 cycles that's 0.02 USD per kWh cycled in and out of the battery. And the battery isn't dead yet, just lost 20% of capacity. For intraday, day to day and up to a few days electricy storage that's fine and cheap enough.