If Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has calculated how much must be spent on energy storage to stabilise a renewable grid, she does not seem keen to share.
Tag: Utility Scale Energy Storage
Trying To See If California’s Energy Plans Add Up
Does the California multi-agency Report provide any reason to believe that the California bureaucrats have a good idea as to how to get to a zero-emissions electrical grid? The answer…
Energy Storage: An Estimate Using Actual Data
By Mike O’Ceirin Energy Storage: An Estimate Using Actual Data Abstract Much has been written about using energy storage to stabilise renewable energy. This article uses actual data to present…
Energy Storage Best Practices from New England
I am unconvinced that this report provides any value. The report was not proofed well because wording of the ten recommendations in each chapter do not match the description of…
A Little Arithmetic: The Costs Of A Solar-Powered Grid Without Fossil Fuel Back-up
At current prices of around $200/KWH the 560 GWH of storage will run around $112 billion, or around half of the annual budget of the state government of California.
Crews battle Tesla battery fire at Moorabool, near Geelong
A toxic blaze at the site of Australia’s largest Tesla battery project is set to burn throughout the night.
New York can’t buy its way out of blackouts
All of this battery backup hype is a scam, and not just in New York either. The papers are full of this con, from coast to coast. The utilities know…
Utility-Scale Battery Costs “Fall” to $625/kWh
Guest “Now that’s funny right there!” by David Middleton OCTOBER 23, 2020Utility-scale battery storage costs decreased nearly 70% between 2015 and 2018 The average energy capacity cost of utility-scale battery…
NREL Energy Storage System Cost Benchmark
Guest post by Roger Caiazza One of the biggest issues with plans to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy is intermittency. At some point that can only be addressed by…
