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As far as I am aware, these are short term batteries to deal with intra day volatility (intra hour to switch between different sources in fact I believe). It's
by cm2187 2y ago
As far as I am aware, these are short term batteries to deal with intra day volatility (intra hour to switch between different sources in fact I believe). It's not capacity to deal with a week without wind. You would need to quote the capacity not in GW but in GWh for that (or GW-days).
- toomuchtodo 2y agoBatteries are short duration storage (4-12 hours); overbuilding renewables, generation diversity, and transmission solves for your problem statement around longer duration lulls in certain generation types. Related citation wrt battery costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919052 ("HN: China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts")