MEGAPACKS are Tesla’s grid-level battery storage systems. Other companies also make similar systems. The question is why does adding battery storage to the electric grid make sense? A recent FutureAzA video […]
Category: Electric Grid
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Aren’t the Answer
Large-scale nuclear reactor construction is all but dead and has been for a long time. To expensive and too long to build are the advertised primary reasons but too risky […]
Ventum Wind Turbine
We have all seen the huge horizontal axis wind turbines. Beyond seeing them, many of us think their size is getting out of control. There are quite a few in […]
BaroMar Grid Energy Storage
The load on the electric grid is variable. It goes up when people get up in the morning and stays high until people go to bed. Depending on where you […]
Battle for Grid-Level Battery Storage
I am sure you have heard about Tesla MegaPacks. They have been making peaker plants an expensive mistake. Well, CATL, the world’s biggest battery manufacturer released their next-level grid-level storage. […]
Cavern Energy Storage
I regularly see people talking about how we don’t have enough electricity to charge electric cars. This discussion then goes on to needing more {coal, nuclear, gas}pick one or more […]
Death of the US Electric Grid
The anti-EV crowd would like to blame the coming disaster for the US electric grid on EVs. The reality is that growth in industry, not EV usage is the biggest […]
Tesla Has Sold Over 600,000 PowerWalls
The fastest growing part of Tesla’s business is grid-tied storage. About 1/3 of all home grid storage units sold in the US are Tesla PowerWalls. There is a lot more […]
Can the Electric Grid Handle EVs?
Franci from Out of Spec interviews Dan Bowermaster from EPRI to get an independent look at if the grid can handle EVs and, if so, how. We so often hear that […]
Google’s Geothermal Experiment
Google and Fervo build a new kind of geothermal power plant. Google’s desire to run all its data centers on “green energy” and Fervo’s technology (combined with $1 billion from […]