Very interesting. The video and sound quality was not the best but just adequate though certainly worth it to hear the speaker David Mooney. The dual view of slide and speaker worked well, much better than the speaker only view sometimes seen on RU-vid.
As you probably already know Redflow has a video showing zinc bromine storage systems in deployment. So it should be moved to that square on the Storage Tech. Maturity chart. From the size of the unit it should be suitable in both mobile/transport and grid storage.
Investor owned utilities, pre-PURPA and pre-deregulation, had an incentive -- rate basing capital hardware -- to have storage and reserve capacity in place. Now, renewables and storage are booked as a cost, not a rate based capital asset, leaving little incentive for senior management and integrated resource planners to address storage.
sadly its only 480p (can't read all the text on the slides) and the audio is frequently bad and ugly. Placering the microphone on the Nelly is not a good idea. But it is interesting.
I have thought about this a bit and here's my two cents. Currently obviously we can rely on fossil fuels for seasonal imbalance, as we shift more to renewables (which is inevitable) either nuclear or very long distsnce transmission will provide energy. Both of which are very expensive. The ladder would involve installing transmission lines connecting the northern and southern hemispheres and exchaning energy between the two hemispheres between the seasons. Ultimately this is what will have to happen as nuclear is unsustainable.
@@jacobdykstra8499 You need to look into Fusion based nuke power. It is very practical. It's extreamly safe, produced in a much smaller reactor, not capable of explosion and still 25 years away from widespread use. One beautiful feature of a fusion reactor is that it can process current fission nuke waste, reduce it's volume to a tiny fraction of it's current volume and reduce it's dangerous state to only a couple hundred years.
@@winomaster I think cost effective fusion is more than 25 years away. By the time it is available the grid will already be transformed to facilitate a renewables paired with grid storage. I work for a utility company and every day we are adapting more and more distribution circuits to cope with this change (renewables and energy storage) By the time these technologies come to market they will no longer be needed. At least not for typical grid operations. The one thing that could absolutely change this is a resource shortage particularly for materials to make batteries.
Just put in over capacity. Solar has become so extremely cheap now that there is always a good use for it. Desalination of water in the sumer would be a good one and would easily pay for the overcapacity.
Can anyone recommend a video or link to describe how Storage can provide 'Transmission Relief' or 'Reduce Congestion' I would like to build a Wind Farm of say 20 or 25 MW on a 100kV line, but the Transmission Line is currently running at 100% Capacity. If I build a 20MW Battery Storage project on the line disbursed in 4 spots next to other variable generation sites (wind farms) will this then free up the line that was 100% full to than have room to fit another 20MW or 25MW on the line? Please comment anyone or send link to discuss the benefits and costs of this theory. Thanks
!"$ Money, correct me if I have misunderstood but if your line is running at 100% capacity, adding storage increases the load on the line as more power will be needed to charge the storage?
@@iainreid9914 I think he means 100% peak capacity. If you can scatter storage downline, then you can charge your batteries during off-peak hours. Unless I have misunderstood.
With the rapidity with which battery technology is moving, I don't know how Elon Musk can commit to such capacity as he is building in his new battery factory. If he intends to build lithium batteries, he could find himself blindsided by the coming Graphene revolution in battery technology. The factory could be shifted to Graphine production, but at some cost. Perhaps he is already anticipating building the new graphine battery. Everything is just moving so fast.
