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Originally Posted by Torture
Those technologies don't solve peak load, but they go a long way to helping out with the peak load problem. Sure it will still be a challenge, but if we incentivize people to shift some demand later we don't need that base load to be quite as high.
It's not a matter of utility scale storage vs load shifting, we will need both.
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And I think it's really becoming apparent that the solutions will really vary by location. For example, Australia has the highest distributed solar penetration in the world and it's still growing. Same with distributed storage. I doubt that will be the same in BC as sunlight isn't all that plentiful and hydro is huge. The UK has enough wind to support 27% of all power needs and rising, but solar isn't likely to dominate. That means the storage needs to be more longer term and less overnight so the solution may look different.