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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 (especially as we bring on more demand to electrify everything). 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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This is bang on. We absolutely will need more/better demand response/load shifting.
Part of my concern with utility scale storage is the siting of it.
The grid is starting to see congestion with all of the renewables locating in the same region (particularly the SE). Adding batteries to these sites further exacerbates that situation necessitating more transmission build.