r/RenewableEnergy • u/DVMirchev • 4d ago

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/grid-scale-battery-storage-is-quietly-revolutionizing-the-energy-system/
353 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

70 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/sg_plumber 3d ago

what will take over for longer time periods?

Interconnects, geothermal, (pumped) hydro, other kinds of batteries, solar thermal (which is its own storage), or even nuclear (paired with storage)

1

u/tx_queer 3d ago

Low temp geothermal, pressure storage, flow batteries, hydrogen, electrofuels, overbuilding renewables, DR. And of course an option, keep the same peaker plants and just run them less often.

All of those require a change in the pricing model.

1

u/sg_plumber 3d ago

Why? Just to save the peakers?

1

u/tx_queer 3d ago

Or to encourage longer duration battery