Yes, at conferences I’ve been to the discussion is increasingly not “How will we afford all the long term energy storage?” so much as “how much of a role will there be for long term energy storage?”
Personally I’m fairly confident that we’ll eventually need at least 4-16 hrs energy storage in most places, and more in some grids, but I suspect that many places will be able to muddle and kludge their way through most multi-day storage needs with a bunch of other partial solutions that generate power or shift demand.
Yes, at conferences I’ve been to the discussion is increasingly not “How will we afford all the long term energy storage?” so much as “how much of a role will there be for long term energy storage?”
Personally I’m fairly confident that we’ll eventually need at least 4-16 hrs energy storage in most places, and more in some grids, but I suspect that many places will be able to muddle and kludge their way through most multi-day storage needs with a bunch of other partial solutions that generate power or shift demand.