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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I expect utility electricity solutions to be eclectic.
There likely is a role for batteries to play, and it's probably to smooth rapid changes in electricity supply / demand for a few seconds to tens of minutes at a time.
Even larger capacity energy storage solutions will be required, and they will need to be cost competitive. It's absolutely necessary if conventional generation is to be displaced with renewables. Another possibility is to have grids so interconnected and dynamically responsive that surplus can be transported to where demand is.
Or, we could just have nuclear. I wonder what CO2 emissions would look like today if Chernobyl never happened?
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Tesla is active on all fronts:
* Powerwall microgrids will run a 13-Kw home for a day, They can be ganged up to ten units. Plug and play.
* Neighborhoods can be ganged.
* Cities can be ganged.
* Counties are the next target.
* Megabatteries have already been displacing peaking plants with 100- gang + capacity and growing.( 1.6-Gw )
* Tesla is entering the Texas retail electricity business, buying, producing, storing ,selling.
* Some are taking a very hard look at nukes. Another Chernobyl-like event seems extremely unlikely with present state-of-the-art.
* JASON / RAND Corp. types say that we should expect a 'mix' of everything we can throw at the challenge.