tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post5363723216349081774..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: The Drawbacks of a Renewable GridUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-68586569593170939002015-06-17T10:30:04.010-04:002015-06-17T10:30:04.010-04:00Matt. Its not Elon's politics that are of mos...Matt. Its not Elon's politics that are of most interest. It's his statement that he will sell the batteries for $100 per kWh.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143580851744621268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-30926396130307486852015-06-16T14:39:28.449-04:002015-06-16T14:39:28.449-04:00Matt
Nice summary. As to your point and to Anonym...Matt<br />Nice summary. As to your point and to Anonymous, capital and O&M costs for battery or any other form of storage technology MUST also be considered in the total cost to deliver when analyzing alternatives. That added flexibility also comes at premium. As for Musk, he is very adapt at lobbying and negotiating for large government handouts and subsidies paid by taxpayers, masking what would otherwise be the real and actual costs in a levelized open market.IBEXhttp://www.ibexesi.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-10193814671114536602015-06-16T13:15:14.697-04:002015-06-16T13:15:14.697-04:00Elon's battery should work well with microgrid...Elon's battery should work well with microgrids. Microgrids offer many opportunities including the ability to stabilize the larger grid for certain types of problems as fossil fuels are being phased out. The microgrid may allow a pathway for the microgrid owner to help finance and own a portion of a new nuclear plant if we can get all the regulatory, electronic, and accounting pieces to fit together. See my comments about microgrids posted here http://egpreston.com/100percentrenewables.pdf Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143580851744621268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-69658775377424797612015-06-16T13:09:52.573-04:002015-06-16T13:09:52.573-04:00Matt, your readers may be interested in simulation...Matt, your readers may be interested in simulations I have done for the ERCOT system pushing renewables to 100% of the energy, i.e. zero fossil fuels. The renewable power swings are enormous and the battery is enormous with an estimated cost of $6600 billion. Details are posted here http://egpreston.com/100percentrenewables.pdf Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143580851744621268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-24212816753571048552015-06-16T05:30:39.135-04:002015-06-16T05:30:39.135-04:00Maybe it is impolite of me to point this out, but ...Maybe it is impolite of me to point this out, but the Stanford advocates of 100% renewable energy systems have received a substantial amount of support from Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy. Jay Precourt, the man who provided at least $80 million and his name to the institute earned his BS ('59) and MS ('60) in petroleum engineering at Stanford. <br /><br />He has held a variety of responsible and apparently lucrative positions in the global oil and gas industry.<br /><br />I've published more details on Atomic Insights. Please see http://atomicinsights.com/stanford-climate-scientists-promote-100-renewable-revolution-using-fossil-fuel-money/ and its related posts. Rod Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-16989451061983595942015-06-15T14:27:43.060-04:002015-06-15T14:27:43.060-04:00Not sure how you can bash battery storage without ...Not sure how you can bash battery storage without even mentioning Elon Musk's new technology. Maybe it's overclaimed, maybe it's not. But a blog post looking into whether this technology could really make renewables reliable enough for the grid would be much more informative in 2015 than the same tired arguments against wind and solar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-19150512196769734922015-06-15T13:57:06.251-04:002015-06-15T13:57:06.251-04:00Outstanding summary of the myriad of problems with...Outstanding summary of the myriad of problems with an all-rewable generation system I especially like the analogy of hopping cross-country on one leg. Good job.Leslie Corricenoreply@blogger.com