flacaltenn
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Both wind and solar are cheaper without subsidies than is dirty coal. I have not seen any subsidies for the grid scale batteries.
Another Mega Battery Factory in U.S., This One For the Grid | Xconomy
Eikeland said Alevo chose North Carolina, which hasn’t provided any financial incentives, because it could locally source many of the components and machinery it needed. The entire battery except for the electrolyte will be assembled in North Carolina; one local supplier is engineering company Parker Hannifin. “We spent years looking to secure the location that’s capable of a multi-gigawatt capacity,” Eikeland says. The company hopes to operate in the U.S. and has a supply agreement with a Chinese energy project developer.
As for funding, Eikeland says the company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from private investors, all in equity. It plans to start deploying its first battery systems next July.
'Largest ever' U.S. energy storage system takes shape
Energy storage specialist Alevo Group has announced plans to deliver the largest U.S. energy storage deployment to date, after signing a deal to provide 200MW of capacity.
The company, which emerged from stealth mode last autumn with news that it had raised around $1 billion to support the development of its advanced battery technology, revealed that it has signed a deal with energy services firm Customized Energy Solutions (CES).
The joint operational agreement will see the two companies work together to provide 200MW of grid frequency regulation services to the wholesale power market through Alevo's GridBank energy storage systems. These are 2MW capacity batteries stored in shipping containers.
Alevo said that the deal will allow CES to provide energy storage-based frequency regulation services to its customer base in the U.S. and Canada, and "represents the largest ever energy storage deployment in the U.S."
Grid scale storage, at the generation end and the customer end, is now a reality.
First of all -- whoever wrote that happy tripe has no concept of engineering storage units. You can't specify storage capacity in MegaWatts.. If they meant MW-HOURS than each of those containers is enough for 2000 homes for ONE HOUR. Article says they will manufacturing 40 of those per month..
Secondly, "grid frequency regulation capacity " is NOT storage capacity. It's the process of synchronizing very sketchy generators so that they don't DAMAGE the grid or your refrigerator.
In fact Japan -- who does far better than us in grid engineering REQUIRES every solar/ wind installation to have a MINIMUM amount of storage (like 15 to 40 minutes) to keep the grid from going haywire with every puff of wind or cloud passing by.. That's a cost that we may REGRET not requiring once we get sucked deeper into this hysteria without a real plan..
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