Electrek article. “”A new report from global energy think tank Ember says batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world.”” “”And as battery tech keeps improving, round-the-clock solar could become the backbone of clean energy systems
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Sam, Electric Viking tells about Tesla Electric’s Megapacks, also about a 2 year waiting list, which will be reduced when the Megafactory opens in China.
This was from JHAT 2024 Dec 8 https://iea-pvps.org/trends_reports/trends-in-pv-applications-2024/
Gov. Newsom signs SB 59 into law. Bidirectional charging may be required on EVs soon due to new CA law
This article has some valuable information – it’s worth reading. Badmouthers say used EV batteries will be filling up landfills. That’s false. The used EV batteries will have many years more use in Battery Energy Storage Systems. After that they will be ground up and recycled for their valuable metals. The future holds many, many
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Each point of the link is debunked. Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea #1.) “”Electric systems are awfully wasteful.”” This assumes that all electrical power is generated by thermal power plants. Yes, 2/3 of the energy used to heat the steam goes to waste and only one third gets to produce electricity. But
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The cost of Lithium-ion batteries is still dropping and sodium-ion batteries use even lower cost materials, so it’s likely that the long duration energy storage – LDES – will not catch up for some time. One LDES is green hydrogen, and hydrogen LDES systems seem to have stagnated, partly due to the falling prices of
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That’s great to see! There needs to be more BESS – battery energy storage systems – on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets. Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot
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The transmission pylons are a few million dollars a mile, and the undersea cables are even more expensive. And the undersea cables are more difficult to maintain, as is anything in a marine environment. So the cheap SOBs in the utilities typically choose the lower cost towers. As for the US West Coast, rooftop solar
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This is claiming that the grid will be overloaded, but that claim is contradicted by the latest figures that show the grid has use 1% **less** electricity. The following URL claims that the grid will not be able to handle the growing load. This would be true *if* the grid was the only source of
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