Looks like we threw away 1GW of electricity (from one wind farm) for a whole day yesterday.
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Looks like we threw away 1GW of electricity (from one wind farm) for a whole day yesterday.
We really need location based pricing and more storage and better uses for intermittent power than storage.
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@otfrom more storage would be sweet, I can't believe the amount we're throwing away.
I wonder what would incentivise the energy companies to build-out storage. Though Caley Thistle's attempt at storage was met with loads of negativity
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@ruari yeah, there is a lot of worry around storage (there was a lithium battery fire in England that has freaked a lot of people out).
Location based pricing might make moving some manufacturing/processing tasks to places in Scotland where running them intermittently might make some economic sense too.
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@otfrom do you think the Na-ion batteries will alleviate some of that fear?
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@ruari they should do and should hopefully be better than lithium mining.
I think the battery fire risk is still low compared to the benefit. I'd still like to just see more use of the abundant, 0 carbon leccy we have here though.
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@onepict @ruari not to be all neoliberal about this, but I think there is room for both.
The big transmission infrastructure needs to be nationalised (or certainly regulated better/differently). I think some of the bad pricing things would happen under a nationalised system that was London (or even central belt) focused.
I'd like to see lots of public and private storage and generation (esp solar as it is so cheap) (consumer, industrial, and utility scale) and I'd like to see a lot more co-ops like Ripple and more innovation to use existing things (like old mines). There is a lot of stuff right to hand.
The economics of generation and storage are moving in really good and much better than predicted directions. I wonder what different decisions might have been made had we known how much we could produce and store and how cheaply we could do it.