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Grid connected batteries are only viable for a short duration, they aren’t going to help when you don’t have any wind for two weeks.
by tonyedgecombe 2y ago
Grid connected batteries are only viable for a short duration, they aren’t going to help when you don’t have any wind for two weeks.
- Teever 2y agoIs that a thing where they build wind farms? Like are there any wind farms where it is likely to occur with any regularity? In my region wind generation dipped down to only 1pc of capacity for a day or two last winter which seems to be the floor as far as I can tell. That tells me that we only need to increase capacity by 100x to get the coverage we want, and as a bonus we get all that surplus capacity most of the time to use on non-essential industry.
- ceejayoz 2y agoWhen's the last time the North Sea had no wind for two weeks?
- nazgul17 2y agoNot everyone can use energy from the North Sea.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThankfully, it’s not the only reliably windy spot on the planet. Especially on continent-sized electrical grid scales. We put the farms in windy spots, and we pick a variety of spots.
- ImJamal 2y agoCan the North Sea wind provide enough for 100 million people?
- ceejayoz 2y agoAlmost certainly yes. The Dogger Bank farm alone powers six million, and we’ve hardly filled the entire sea with turbines.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agohttps://www.wind-watch.org/news/2021/09/14/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-records-after-wind-stops-blowing/ https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2021/09/14/energy-prices-in-...
- ceejayoz 2y agoIf you dig a little deeper than an industry front quoting the WSJ, "stop" there means "10-20% less than usual" https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2021/low-winds https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2021/low-winds
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoYou still need to cover that 10-20% less. Try doing the figures, we can't scale batteries to cover these drops.