XPost: sci.energy   
   From: gay@sfu.ca   
      
   Siri Cruise wrote:   
      
   > Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> These plans have a single, fatal flaw: they are reliant on the   
   >> pipe-dream   
   >> that there is some affordable way to store surplus electricity at   
   >> scale.   
   >   
   > Gosh darn capitalism. It keeps identifying market opportunities   
   > and then develop technology to sell on the market. PGE can   
   > increase profits by selling electricity when generators are offline.   
   >   
   >   
   https://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/press-re   
   ease-details/2020/PGE-Poised-to-Expand-Battery-Energy-Storage-Ca   
   acity-by-More-Than-420-Megawatts/default.aspx   
   >   
   Interesting that that blurb gives only power levels of various storage   
   units, but not their capacity. So how many seconds - days - years can   
   PGE storage cover when the generators are offline???   
      
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