Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue

  • teslekova@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    They’re essentially the same thing on the scale of a national grid. Battery banks can turn on the juice in microseconds.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      grid buffering does not need that. It’s literally guys looking at demand and phoning around to turn up or down generation.

      Fun fact: this was the first in a series of events that caused the Chernobyl explosion.

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        Oh yeah, it’s massive overkill for the conventional grid. It’s just one of the things I see people say when trying to get people to accept that battery banks can make a renewable-only grid viable here in Australia.