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.