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Environment & Energy

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12. Well does it cost more?

Tue May 31, 2022, 07:38 PM

May 2022

And with advances in battery tech, will it all ways cost more? If not shouldn't storage capability be part of future plans?

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Record Wind in Scotland Means Grid Tells Some Turbines to Stop [View all] Caribbeans May 2022 OP

Are you... Caribbeans May 2022 #4

Storing electricity produced by wind Finishline42 Jun 2022 #13

Don't many of the transit lines use electical power? brush May 2022 #2

When the grid is full it's full and cannot accept any more juice Caribbeans May 2022 #5

Well does it cost more? brush May 2022 #12

cant they mine some bitcoin with the excess juice? Blues Heron May 2022 #3

Some might consider that a "waste". n/t PoliticAverse May 2022 #8

Free money for the utility - what's not to like? Blues Heron May 2022 #10