07-07-2016, 04:47 PM
Big batteries to the rescue.
Quote:World's Largest Storage Battery Will Power Los Angeles
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...GYSUS_NEWS
“By 2021, electricity use in the west Los Angeles area may be in for a climate change-fighting evolution….Five years from now, if current plans work out, the “peaker” will be gone, replaced by the world’s largest storage battery, capable of holding and delivering over 100 megawatts of power an hour for four hours. The customary afternoon peak will still be there, but the battery will be able to handle it without the need for more fossil fuels. It will have spent the morning charging up with cheap solar power that might have otherwise been wasted.”…
… “It was the first time an energy storage device had won a competition against a conventional power plant.”…
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