Grid Storage for Renewables Integration
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Kelly Warner - President, Advanced Microgrid Solutions
Todd Strauss - Senior Director, PG&E
Kate McGinnis - Market Director, AES Energy Storage
Barry Cinnamon - CEO, Cinnamon Energy Systems
Moderator: Jeff Byron, Band of Angels
What will it take in terms of megawatts of energy storage and dollars to flatten the belly of the famous duck curve in California and meet the 2030 RPS goals?
What storage solutions will prevail - customer-side, behind the meter or utility scale, in front of the meter,?
What are the costs and benefits of each type of solution?
In mid-May California broke a record on one day with 67% of its power being generated by renewable sources of electricity on the portion of the grid controlled by the CAISO. While this is a major achievement, sustaining this level of renewable power generation from a variety of sources is a challenge.
California is a leader not only in renewable energy sources but also in energy storage. It has one of the country’s highest renewable portfolio standards requiring 50% of its energy generation to be powered by renewable resources by 2030. Currently at 27% of our electricity coming from renewable sources, we are ahead of our RPS goals of meeting 33% renewables by 2020.
The electric grid is a complex system in which energy supply and demand must always match at any given time. Since renewable sources like wind and solar are subject to variability, energy storage helps to smooth out the differences between energy supply and demand. It stores excess energy when supply exceeds demand, and dispatches energy when demand exceeds supply.
Today’s energy storage companies are going a step further by not only providing backup power to customers or the grid but also providing the ability to respond instantaneously to the utility grid needs. This combination of flexibility and ability to dispatch is a valuable asset.
Until recently, the cost of energy storage has been prohibitive, but battery prices have been declining rapidly in recent years and are projected to continue to decline with technology improvements and manufacturing scale.
Note: While other storage technologies are also being developed, this discussion will focus on chemical batteries, which are by far the most common.
Boy,, I want one of those energy storage yards taking up about 5sq miles of my city and in every city. Bet that nice to look at and drive around all day.
MIT's salt cooled reactor reach is our country best path. Hands down, obvious. Those MIT people are genius's.
The best way to use the present solar panels. Would be proof tops of houses and buildings, maybe on sides. Where that space is dead space. It's not real being used and it wouldn't take up other space that could be used for a better use. Remember thier talking about taking up vast land area.
Panels would protect the roof shingles and contents of the attic from large amounts of heat, as well as the heat which migrates down to the top floor.
That tape MIT developed for SALT reactor. Can that be made to carry the currents on the grids more efficiently????? MIT....
how much is the TESLA Powerpact? or any utility scale BESS?
Renewable and sustainable means using and recycling the more abundant materials not wasting, hording, and fighting over the least abundant rarest earth metals. This road will end up in the next war being over rare energy.
Once we received our past utility charge we could not place dinner on the family table. I recognized my toddlers would most likely go hungry. The solution turned out to be the Papziati Energy system online. It is a good way to produce your own electricity. Just start looking on the search engines.
Storage is the only solution. When that is the question. The answer is now. Joseph France
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Is that the actor from 3rd Rock...lol...sorry...lol...
What is CAISO?
the California Independent System Operator.
Lee Brennan . Thanks!
Thanks!
Even has a girlfriend named Susan...lol...
The biggest issue with deploying an updated energy grid with fully renewable energy generation seems to be that people are struggling to come up with ways to make money off it? So why exactly do we need the monetary system? It seems to hold back progress in many sectors, not just energy... #ChangeTheGame
blowera1 are you serious? Fully renewable is the cheapest energy available.
@Jacob Dykstra cheapest = less profitable. less profitable = slowing of the economy. slowing of the economy leads to monetary system collapse. If we were 100% renewable, energy companies wouldn't be able to justify the ridiculous prices they charge. At the rate that renewable energy technology is getting more efficient and cheaper we'd be able to produce energy at near zero marginal cost once the initial infrastructure costs are met. This initial cost is where everyone seems to throw their hands up and say too expensive. If there was no monetary system this excuse would be removed.
blowera1 we don't need energy companies to keep the economy alive there are many other businesses and opportunities such as the clean energy. Solar employs more people than fossil energy. There will still always be a need to remain connected to the grid and move power around. I would argue it will help the economy by shifting money elsewhere allowing people to do something more productive than constantly search for oil and gas.
We don't need the "economy" in its current form. While oil and gas are near the top of the food chain, in relation to biggest industries on the planet, they will slow down the transition to renewables while they cling to their final breath. That's just the kind of mentality the monetary system breeds. Building a new digital energy grid, turning houses and other buildings into their own independent power supply and building storage and backup generation facilities would create an enormous amount of jobs and stimulate the economy but would effect the bottom line of some of the biggest corporations on the planet. The kinds of corporations with the power to influence governments.
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Kelly Warner too many "ums"