Comment on Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThey’re essentially the same thing on the scale of a national grid. Battery banks can turn on the juice in microseconds.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
grid buffering does not need that. It’s literally guys looking at demand and phoning around to turn up or down generation.
Fun fact: this was the first in a series of events that caused the Chernobyl explosion.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh yeah, it’s massive overkill for the conventional grid. It’s just one of the things I see people say when trying to get people to accept that battery banks can make a renewable-only grid viable here in Australia.