Compared to any (currently practical) storage, just laying more wires to places that don't currently have too much wind/sun is much more efficient.
Turns out, cables are relatively cheap, compared to batteries.
Turns out, cables are relatively cheap, compared to batteries.
It's okay to waste excess capacity so long as it is wind/solar/nuclear.
Transforming to burnable fuels via electricity is actually useful for some applications and actually in the planning stage with some steelmakers (as a replacement for coal!) like h2 green steel in the same region of Sweden as the floodings. They claim that steelmaking is up to 7% of global co2 emissions and being able to move to gas produced with cheap electricity might be only marginally more costly than coal.
While building better grids is practically doable, I don't see it happening anytime soon; the idea, of using cheap electricity to entice a FAANG to build a data center in one's backyard is preferable to most elected officials here.
In that situation it's probably better business to just buy cheap electricity off the market and use it to do something useful.
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