Big battery fire [image credit: reneweconomy.com.au
The so-called savings come from *not* paying some of the constraint costs of excess wind energy production. The Sky News headline about saving ‘billions’ turns out to mean some unknown time in the future when many more such installations might be online. They ignore the fact that batteries have a limited life span and, being lithium-ion types, can suffer expensive or even disastrous overheating problems.
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It looks like a self-storage park: rows of shipping containers in a patch of Merseyside waste ground, says Sky News.
But appearances can be deceptive as this is the first step in saving billions of pounds off bills and millions of tonnes of carbon.
It’s a mega-battery.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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