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Alternative Energy Storage: Why Frequency Regulation Is Important

John. Great piece(s). As soon as you mentioned "... battery and mechanical energy storage systems do not have the brute capacity required to smooth..", I thought about pumped-hydro. Boom, you mentioned it in the very next sentence (I have not head of compressed-air before now).

When people (like Boone) throw out wind "economic viability" numbers, I start watching where I'm stepping! Am I right to think their numbers don't include addressing the problems you site?

Like you, I waiting for the "next great battery" technology, which in my lay terms, has not changed in a thousand years (it's "creeped, not leaped")?

I have a friend who has a solar installation business here in Ga and he essentially won't install battery storage systems (exploding batteries and general cost/reliability).