Who's in?
Who's in?
Battery storage kills fossil generation, as it can’t compete when the batteries take ancillary service revenue (frequency response and voltage pinning) from gas turbines and firm renewables that are dispatchable make fossil generation overall uneconomical. It also reduces the need to curtail clean energy due to overproduction or transmission congestion.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/12/battery-storage-syste...
https://www.harmonyenergy.co.uk/general/harmony-energy-incom...
Sexy electric cars with fat margins paid for this, as well as a billion dollar global fast DC charge network. Cheap econobox EVs with no or negative margin do not. Electric bikes do not. Public transportation does not. That doesn’t make them less necessary, just not drivers of change.