Sam (the Electric Viking) tells us about a Renewables futurist and how China is installing renewables that are the equivalent of five nuclear power plants *a week*!! China has surpassed 1 Terawatt of solar capacity in 2024. Global installed solar capacity has hit two terawatts! It took 68 years to reach 1 Terawatt Solar capacity,
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This was from JHAT 2024 Dec 8 https://iea-pvps.org/trends_reports/trends-in-pv-applications-2024/
China is installing renewables and battery storage at a record pace. Sam Electric Viking tells us all about it – 10.7 min. video. China has installed more solar this year than the rest of the world combined.
Article about V2G technology. DER aggregators https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2024/october/University-of-Delaware-Delmarva-Power-V2G-technology-scalable-low-cost/
Gov. Newsom signs SB 59 into law. Bidirectional charging may be required on EVs soon due to new CA law
Sam Evans the Electric Viking’s 13 min. video extolls the virtues of solar and how even more is being installed than last year. Predicted 593 Gigawatts! It’s even exceeding Tony Seba’s predictions.
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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Tesla secures massive contract with power company Intersect Power for its Megapack battery systems: ‘One of the largest and fastest-growing storage portfolios’ https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tesla-secures-massive-contract-power-100000385.html
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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