117
submitted 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/energy@slrpnk.net

I'll note that aggregate system cost still benefits significantly from including wind and other non-solar sources of energy; having a mix of different intermittent sources (and some firm generation such as geothermal) means less storage is needed.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Pumped hydro is great but limited by site availability

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, it's great that batteries have gotten cheaper as they can be used basically anywhere.

I'm selfishly thinking of Australia in particular where we have almost 70 TWh of potential storage.

this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
117 points (99.2% liked)

Green Energy

2124 readers
98 users here now

everything about energy production

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS