California Now Has A Little Over 6,600 MW Of Energy Storage

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• uphillbothways@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's 6.6 gigawatts! We just need to get this state over 88 mph and we've got a chance of escaping this awful timeline.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So step 1 would be to break off California from the rest of the American continent so you don’t have to accelerate all of that?

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    • hotair@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The rest of the world always follows. It’s been weird. Catalytic converters, efficiency standards and all that.

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• Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any reason they’re counting energy by power?

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  • hallettj@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Power tells you how large of a gap in grid capacity-vs-demand storage can cover while renewables are below peak production. That’s the important number, as long as the energy stored is sufficient to last until renewable output goes back up.

    Giving an energy storage number by itself could be misleading because it seems the batteries that have been built take longer than an hour to discharge. So for example 26 GWh storage does not equal 26 GW grid capacity.

    But this article, like many others does seem to be loose with the power-vs-energy metrics:

    If 6,600 MW doesn’t sound like that much, consider it is enough to supply electricity to about 6.6 million homes in California for 4 hours

    Maybe the implication is that the total energy storage is 26,400 MWh?

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps in the same vein as what a power plant produces?

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  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tesla fanboys

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Possibly because throughout is important, possibly because MWh seems to confuse a lot of people. People are used to thinking of electricity in its flowing state and in the modern era of batteries have generally been given it in time of operation of what the battery is for.

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  • kozy138@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably pretty consumption is increasing faster than their capacity

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Someone needs to get their units figured out. Storage is measured in Wh.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Storage is measured that way; discharge rate in watts.

    Both need to be planned to handle peak shaving and overnight storage.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Throughout the article they’re mixing the units up. Not just the title.

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• shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that enough to farm a bitcoin?

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many times over.

    We’d be better off if bitcoin transitioned off of proof-of-work though

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