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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
For a smaller market like Alberta, I do wonder how far a 1MW/150MW aqueous iron battery would go for the longer term storage. Like could you have an additional 10% renewable mix?
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Our consumption is around 10,000MW, so 1MW is not going to go far at all. Even 100 of those doesn't really move the needle. Wind generation is ~2000MW capacity. In the low times in January, it was around 150MW. So to make wind a reliable power source with batteries, to get a consistent say, 1000MW, that's 1000 of those batteries. Is that achievable? I haven't looked into the details of that battery plan.