So increase it further and once exceeding demand is the default in summer days allow companies to build storage right next to wind generation. The fact that they are only getting cheap renewable power for it's actual price instead of prices of that broken energy market makes commercial investment into storage worthwhile. So free storage infrastructure for the public, paid by private money making a profit.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In recent years I’ve been following the development of the energy storage industry. The latest video by Just Have a Think made me realize that an energy storage facility should use a variety of different technologies. Some would store energy for a few hours, some for days and some technologies would be used for seasonal energy storage.

I really think we need to start building these facilities. Not just pilot plants, but actual production scale facilities.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

What almost everyone seems to miss is it's absolutely optimal situation to overbuild and waste electricity. Sometimes it's just not worth storing, until demand exceeds a lot it's not really worth storing large amounts.

Also HVDC currents.