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Just a random idea: given the nature of Cuban society would neighbourhood or house level batteries be viable? Enough to store your electricity needs for (say) two or three days. So you can smooth out the day/night wind/calm cycles to some extent?

Tangential: given the state of the structures in the OA is it really possible this facility can be completed without effectively rebuilding it?

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> given the nature of Cuban society would neighbourhood or house level batteries be viable?

Possibly maybe?

You need 10kW per household per day with generous electricity consumption [1] Retail prices for 10kW batteries seem to be in the range of $5k to infinity.

At scale this will be cheaper, but then the question then becomes the same: availability at this scale

[1] https://solaremporium.com.au/blog/how-long-will-a-10kw-batte...

What's with this widespread confusion between kW and kWh, especially from supposed experts in solar power...

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