{"id":22455,"date":"2014-12-07T21:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=22455"},"modified":"2014-12-08T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:57:00","slug":"22455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/22455\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Renewable Energy Be Cost Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swiss company Alevo opened a battery manufacturing plant in the USA this year. \u00a0But the batteries are not for mobile phones.\u00a0 They are making batteries that can store megawatts hours of electricity and they plan to sell them to grid operators.<\/p>\n

These batteriee will smooth the consequences of irregular demand during the day.\u00a0 They will eliminate plans for gas-powered sqeaker stations.\u00a0 Alevo estimates that if a grid as big as the American west were to use 18gw worth of batteries, it could save $12 billion a year.\u00a0 Alevo has no North American contracts yet, but it does have contracts with Guangdong, China,<\/p>\n

Today we count on pumped hydro. But pumoed-to storage depends on friendly geography\u00a0 Hills and valleys are not present in many areas. \u00a0Alevo is not alone.\u00a0 Tesla is building a plant near Reno Nevada. Stations that regulate output in wind farms have already been built. \u00a0Toshiba is building one based in lithium batteries,<\/p>\n

Alevo thinks these batteries can not only deal with irregular demand, but also with the regular supply. \u00a0Sun power is highly irregular as is wind power.\u00a0 Cheap grid scale storage would overcome irregularities.\u00a0 Renewables could compete on cost alone, a tantalizing prospect.<\/p>\n

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