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Originally Posted by Azure
Pretty sure you are correct.
Battery however is an even better peaker plant in terms of efficiency and cost savings. There is zero doubt in this regard.
People are getting WAY to caught up in the whole 'it would take this amount of storage and solar/wind to provide power for the whole grid' without realizing that we are talking about two applications here.
Standard power production
Peak power production management
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Most of my concerns weren't around the whole grid, it was about how we have a production deficit currently, and how to cover for that, and that batteries couldn't possibly fill that roll, as we are up to 5 days now of 1000MW deficit. Which, coincidentally, is around what we have in wind capacity that isn't doing anything right now.