The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass)
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The Fatal Paradox of Scaling Up Battery Storage
If you store up batteries and expect them to be available in the most severe, long lived wind or solar droughts, then it means they 're not available for the immediate mediate purpose. If you are building multi billion dollar storage facilities in case you need it once a year or twice a year, three times year, you will never pay it off. Back to moving the average wholesale electricity price. That would tell you there's way too much solar here. Throw the throw that price negative, throw it through the floor. Because the sun's going down, we need a lot more to make up for the sun going down. And so any change to that price differential ends up being
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