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Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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I'll note that aggregate system cost still benefits significantly from including wind and other non-solar sources of energy; having a mix of different intermittent sources (and some firm generation such as geothermal) means less storage is needed.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

We really should be installing neighborhood sodium batteries everywhere. It would help to capture residential solar and smooth out the grid. No more mass power outages during storms either.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sodium-ion is one of several technologies which might end up being how we do storage; there are a bunch of iron-chemistry flow battery technologies which might be cheaper. It's not at all clear which will be the best choice for stationary storage at this point.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I think it doesn't matter too much. Suboptimal energy storage is still much better than none.

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