Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
LoL. Here we go with California - again. They are NOT the place to benchmark any energy grid off of, they've absolutely totaled theirs. You are obviously not an electrical engineer or do you understand the capacity required to store megawatts of energy. The battery tech doesn't exist yet and if and when it does it will come at a huge cost. Much easier to build a few nat gas plants or one nuke plant. Boom. Done. Bob's your uncle.
Near where I live they just converted a coal plant to a nat gas one. It took them about 2 years to complete it. It produces more energy than the old coal plant (nat gas is tremendously more efficient) and it's much "cleaner" as well.
Again, the experiment is over. It failed. I'm fine with augmenting the grid with some solar and some wind. However, it should not be the primary provider for the grid. It just doesn't work.
And by failed, you mean great success.
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/kelsie-goma...ornia-and-west
The current battery capacity is 16GW and will grow to 52GW at current projection by 2045. There are also some interesting energy storage experiments going on around the country that are determining the feasibility of mechanical batteries that would be able to store massive amounts of energy without a single chemical battery.