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It seems to me that a bigger issue is lack of storage. With battery storage acting as buffers we would normalize/smooth out required transmission rates.
by epgui 1y ago
It seems to me that a bigger issue is lack of storage. With battery storage acting as buffers we would normalize/smooth out required transmission rates.
- blauditore 1y agoAll I keep hearing is that storage is crazy expensive. Otherwise this would be a very obvious solution to everyone.
- philjohn 1y agoBut storage has dropped in cost over the last 10 years, by a factor of around 5x. And with cell chemistry that is more resilient to charge and discharge cycles (LFP) coming to fruition in the last 5 years (and at a lower cost than NMC) it makes sense that we're only now seeing large-scale investment - the yield curve has hit the sweet spot.
- epgui 1y agoI don’t know, apparently Tesla’s battery deployment in Australia paid for itself really quickly as one possible counter-example.
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoSome of the largest batteries in Europe have been built recently beside these two grid boundaries. There's a nice diagram of the Scottish side in this article: https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/blackhillock-battery-storage-launch/ https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/blackhillock-battery-...