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revjss@sfba.social ("Jeff Spencer") wrote:
California’s new grid-connected batteries, installed over the last 36 months or so, are the equivalent of a dozen new nuclear power plants. If California had installed a dozen nukes in a couple of years, you’d know about it because people would be protesting and counter protesting. And the fact that we in California are now powering the grid with what is essentially stored solar energy during the peak demand (which is typically around 7:00PM), producing as much as 40 percent of the peak capacity requirements, hasn’t made a ripple. Does the fact that batteries are essentially metal boxes that don’t pose a threat make it non-newsworthy?
https://zolairenergy.com/californias-battery-array-is-as-powerful-as-12-nuclear-power-plants-heres-whats-on-the-horizon/