Post #1883147
2023-06-04 10:26 UTC
So you need to keep some of your generators as backup because fossil fuel can be stored cheaply and almost without losses. But you get to turn them off for long stretches, significantly reducing fossil fuel use and mechanical wear on them. Hence, by using batteries, you can increase the renewable share in your grid, thereby helping to save this planet. And to top it all off you also save money!
In fact, there are many companies making a profit by selling this technology to other companies.
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@sbi@toot.berlin 2023-06-04 10:28
Let me reiterate: By putting up wind and PV farms, and hooking up battery power plants to our grid, we could significantly reduce our fossil fuel usage *at a profit* within just a few years. This is proven technology, which has been in the field for *many* years, and comes at a relatively low safety risk. (Compare this to nuclear power plants, which are rather expensive, take a decade or two to build, and take whole nations as backup to get insured because of the risk of a meltdown.)