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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/24/power-grid-battery-capacity-growth>
"Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid
increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing
huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.
From barely anything just a few years ago, the US is now adding utility-scale
batteries at a dizzying pace, having installed more than 20 gigawatts of
battery capacity to the electric grid, with 5GW of this occurring just in the
first seven months of this year, according to the federal Energy Information
Administration (EIA).
This means that battery storage equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear reactors
has been bolted on to America’s electric grids in barely four years, with the
EIA predicting this capacity could double again to 40GW by 2025 if further
planned expansions occur.
California and Texas, which both saw all-time highs in battery-discharged grid
power this month, are leading the way in this growth, with hulking batteries
helping manage the large amount of clean yet intermittent solar and wind energy
these states have added in recent years."
Via
Fix the News:
https://fixthenews.com/276-regenerative-city/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
