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Grid Storage: Batteries Will Win – Casey Handmer's blog

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A short and spicy post. There remains, even in 2023, a substantial fraction of the “future of energy” hivemind who are still convinced that the solution to all our problems is to build …

A short and spicy post. There remains, even in 2023, a substantial fraction of the “future of energy” hivemind who are still convinced that the solution to all our problems is to build more transmission capacity, conveniently obstructed by the lack (so far) of the Act of Congress required to swiftly and forcibly appropriate the millions of acres necessary to string them across the country. NIMBYs, right! [Edit Aug 2025: Austin Vernon and Ben Southwood at WiP write about the effect that batteries are already having on grid scale peak shaving, and their economic inevitability.] In th

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