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Dave R

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16/03/17

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Originally posted by acorn ↑

People are wrongly assuming that these battery storages are to power the state by themselves in the case of a blackout .

They are there to smooth or stabilize the grid because of intermittent output from renewables . They are also to be used as peaking plants where sometimes they will only be needed for seconds or a few minutes .

In the event of a loss of a power source , maybe a few wind turbines together , they will prevent a load shock . This means that they wil buy a bit of time for the larger cfps to catch up .

We still need and always will need power generation one way or another . Batteries will mean we don't have to build oversized generation capacity for one off events and will provide smoothing from intermittent supplies ( wind ) or from load spikes .

Battery technology is changing fast . It's quite likely that flow batteries will replace these lithium battery banks as they are probably better suited to large sized installations and will also have a longer life .

Pumped storage or increased hydro will also provide the same service .

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The Australian made Vanadium redox battery would probably be better to use than Elon Musk's Lithium ones.
The Aussie manufacturers also claim a usable life of at least 25 years, and even after that they can be reconditioned.
I am seriously looking at them for home power storage and going off grid.
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