How much do those batteries cost and can they supply power for multiple days or a season if your renewable sources aren't providing like normal?
Not to mention the environmental damage from producing and disposing of batteries.
How much do those batteries cost and can they supply power for multiple days or a season if your renewable sources aren't providing like normal?
Not to mention the environmental damage from producing and disposing of batteries.
They can’t supply power for more than a couple of day currently. And that’s not all. Battery tech is rapidly evolving-no one knows how to do it "right" yet, which means you might invest, e.g., 50 billion now for batteries that will be obsolete 5 years from now. Nobody wants to do that and I think that among other things is why we still don’t see batteries deployed at scale.
I agree, there are better options for mass scale long term energy storage than batteries, e.g. (green) hydrogen, methane
Pumped hydro is currently the cheapest long term energy storage by a significant amount.