This page contains links to articles on energy storage issues.
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York Posts
- CLCPA Power Generation Advisory Panel Peaking Power Plants– How much to replace peaking power plants with energy storage
- CLCPA Energy Storage Costs – In 2040 a NY renewable capacity projection of 56,071 MW requires $96.0 billion limiting the battery discharge range to 54% to extend battery life expectancy to ten years.
- CLCPA solar and wind capacity requirements – Refined renewable energy estimates evaluation used to estimate energy storage requirements
- Hornsdale Power Reserve Considerations – So far it appears that this energy storage system is a success because it provides ancillary services and not energy storage support
Other Posts
- New York to Purchase Batteries to Back-Up Offshore Wind – Institute for Energy Research looks at the cost to provide energy storage for New York off-shore wind.
- New York can’t buy its way out of blackouts – Evaluation of the cost to support renewable energy system in New York City and New York State
- Astronomical battery cost looms over “renewables” – The amount of storage needed to make renewables reliable is so huge that even if the cost dropped fantastically we still could not afford it.
- The cost and capacity of humungous batteries – Prospects for two new batteries in Australia
- Stop bragging about Big Batteries – They are not grid-scale storage.
- As effective as 18 gnats peeing on a fire – Annual output of 18 Australian battery systems
- At a lower cost … compared to what exactly? – Evaluation of cost-effectiveness claims
- Battery Storage is Not What You Think – The more you learn about the use of solar and wind plants to supply a large fraction of our electricity, the less these sources make sense.
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: batteries compensating for intermittency?
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: the share of battery power in South Australia
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: huffing and puffing old men coming to the aid of their colleague
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: the mouse that stopped the elephant from falling
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: “outsmarting” lumbering coal units by four seconds?
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: calculating oneself rich
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: helping to prevent blackouts in … Melbourne?
- Hornsdale Power Reserve: batteries compensating for intermittency?
- Tesla battery in Australia catches fire soon after startup
- Do lithium ion batteries pose a fire risk?
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Tesla’s Incendiary Mega-Batteries: The Bigger They Come, The Longer They Burn
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