| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Battery packs to store electricity | |
| Posted by: | Lorne Gifford | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/19 14:27:00 |
| Hi Christopher The statistical analysis of potential super-grid connections around Europe took me a while to compile and is commercially sensitive. Bits and pieces of information exist on the internet, but the full model is safely tucked away here in Brentford. Amazing what you can do with a bit of maths and a spreadsheet or two. Got to admit though that one-hour renewable generating and spot-price timesteps over several years of historical data for most of Europe makes them enormously large spreadsheets. I agree that there's a balance with storage, particularly distrubuted storage along the lines of the Tesla solution, but the way things are developing I suspect the balance will be heavily in favour of immediate transmission with only limited storing for later use. A much better rate of return on the transmission option. At half a million volts the transmission loses are very small. The North Africa solar schemes are 'on-hold'. I've been to some of the target countries over the last couple of years and the security situation isn't good, in fact my 'b**gger, this is dangerous' radar was lit up like a christmas tree and I'm not the sort of person who gets worried easily. I don't see anyone investing a large amount into fixed assets there until it's an awful lot better. The IceLink project to capture Icelandic geothermal and hydro power has also just gone on-hold. Issue there is that despite huge resources, Iceland doesn't have the generating capacity to make it viable. Needs a combined generating and transmission scheme. |