What do you do when there’s no sun/wind?
What do you do when there’s no fuel or breathable air?
No mention of the NEM 3 changes that spurred solar companies to push batteries as part of the solar offerings due to massive solar credit increases at specific times but massive reductions at others. Completely changed the landscape around solar installs.
For rooftop, definitely. But those were (at peak) only about 5% of annual solar installs in California. It’s almost all utility-scale.
Meanwhile, TVA (powering huge portions of the Eastern U.S.) is doubling down on fossil fuels, and isn’t even putting any meaningful effort into solar. 🤦♂️
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/climate/tennessee-valley-authority-biden-climate.html
The market will dictate what happens long term. Solar will continue to drop in price and most fossil fuel usage will drop as a result.
This is billions of dollars worth of batteries and energy generation that is being fulfilled by CATL because no American org has the battery technology for that scale of energy storage. America is falling behind in technology for this century.
Hell yeah!
And with sodium batteries finally starting to kick off we’re even having more climate friendly batteries to store that energy as well
Are they viable yet for solar for the masses? Last I heard they have such a huge voltage range that they require new/redesigned/other inverters. I haven’t checked in the progress of those recently.
