For almost a century, electricity generation and distribution were treated as a tightly integrated system: it was designed and built as one, and is meant to operate as designed. However, the chaotic delivery of wind and solar have all but trashed the electricity generation and delivery system, as we know it. Germany, California and South Australia are only the most obvious examples.
Unable to fend off their critics, the narrative among renewable energy rent-seekers quickly shifted their narrative to “grid-scale storage”, like they’d forgotten the bread and milk on their way home from work.
For wind and solar acolytes, physics and economics are boring impediments. However, the colossal cost of giant lithium batteries means that – between now and kingdom come – their contribution to our electrical supply will remain laughably trivial. Rafe Champion provides a helpful description and analysis of why battery storage will never save wind and solar from…
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