Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation
by epistasis on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:48AM
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Yes, the biggest impediments to a complete renewable vein are sociological, not technology or economic.
Entrenched interests who are resistant to change are passing laws to prevent deployment of cheaper tech for our electrical grid. They have discovered that it only takes a couple hundred thousand dollars to fund state-level elections to capture the politician the control state level policy. And since most utilities operate in at most a handful of states, it's super easy for them to but regulatory capture.
It doesn't hurt that an entire political machine has also been fired up to inspire hatred for renewable tech, without any basis in the reality of how it is currently (and mostly quietly) changing our electrical grid for the better, and massively improving air quality.
Entrenched interests who are resistant to change are passing laws to prevent deployment of cheaper tech for our electrical grid. They have discovered that it only takes a couple hundred thousand dollars to fund state-level elections to capture the politician the control state level policy. And since most utilities operate in at most a handful of states, it's super easy for them to but regulatory capture.
It doesn't hurt that an entire political machine has also been fired up to inspire hatred for renewable tech, without any basis in the reality of how it is currently (and mostly quietly) changing our electrical grid for the better, and massively improving air quality.