California now has approximately 250,000 MW of grid scale battery storage in its grid interconnection queue.
A battery with 1 MW of power capacity and 4 MWh of usable energy capacity will have a storage duration of four hours.
Battery storage does not provide inertia and neither does a solar power generator or a wind generator.
"The operation of the electricity grid requires a significant amount of inertia to start it from a system black as well as to ensure the correct operation of the protection systems. Battery storage does not provide inertia and neither does a solar power generator or a wind generator."
Batteries are effective for grid support applications but meaningful grid scale storage is a much bigger thing.
About two years ago, a large battery storage facility in Chandler, just southeast of Phoenix, also blew up.
You don't factor-in the round-trip energy loss associated with battery storage;
It would be good to see how much the 720 hour storage requirement could be reduced by a brute-force method, meaning doubling, or more, the power generation potential.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-8-new-york-getting-totally-lost-with-energy-storage
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