Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
by beat on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:09AM
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Are you looking into storage as well? The engineer in me says caching is the way to convert an intermittent source to a steady load. I'm really curious what a wind investor is thinking about this!
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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
by antr on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:19AM
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Have we looked at it, yes. Are we investing in battery storage, no. It's too early for us to invest in this technology. This should be interesting for energy investors with a slightly higher risk appetite.
Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
by beat on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:27AM
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Ah, that makes sense. It's a very early market. I'm excited for the possibilities, though. If storage can solve the intermittency issue, solar/wind can become baseline load sources more easily, and we'll need far less actual generation in place to maintain the grid. I firmly believe the way out of our power dilemma is just make wind/solar cheaper per kwh than fossil fuels.