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A couple of days ago it says wind cost us £1m. It can't take many days like this to offset a GWh of grid level storage, able to complete absorb environmental g
by oliwarner 1y ago
A couple of days ago it says wind cost us £1m.
It can't take many days like this to offset a GWh of grid level storage, able to complete absorb environmental gluts like this.
- manarth 1y agoPumped hydro is an approach that is in use on the grid today, and has future proposals earmarked for development. https://www.coireglas.com/project https://www.coireglas.com/project The key challenges are deploying large-scale energy storage, and transmission of stored energy to areas of demand.
- oliwarner 1y agoDinorwig is an amazing place to visit. Not sure if they're open right now but go if you can. Yeah, I like pumped hydro and even with its lower efficiency, it's cost effective... but I live in the Fens and I'm looking at solutions that work everywhere. Local storage is going to be more important once a significant portion of the country has an EV and heat pump.
- jcattle 1y agoIt really depends on how much excess capacity the north south interconnects have. You'll have to store the energy where it is produced and then get rid of it when the windfarms are not producing (and there's demand in the south). I'm sure someone did the math on this and it is not economical at the moment, otherwise this would have been lower hanging fruit than adding interconnects.