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John Quiggin's avatar

In addition to storage, batteries provide a bunch of grid services like frequency control. Tesla claims their batteries can replace spinning reserves from thermal power more effectively than alternatives like synchronous condensers. I don't know whether this is correct and whether BYD can match Tesla, but it might be worth looking into.

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M3333's avatar

The Muskrat’s “businesses” are all failing!!!

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Christopher Sweet's avatar

Interesting. Yet we may never see BYD in the US. All depends on the dictatorship failing here.

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DrBDH's avatar

Someone might want to clue MAGA politicians and media pundits to the fact that batteries can store electricity at night or when the wind isn’t blowing. I wonder how they think a flashlight works: tiny coal fueled generators?

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Just perfection!

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