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Re:California breaks 1 GW energy storage milestone by s1artibartfast on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:44PM (#27850497)
How is it not wrong?

The battery energy storage is 8GWh with a power capacity of 2GW. There is no such thing as a power storage capacity, because power is a rate. However, the storage may have a power capacity. pedantic, I know.

Re:California breaks 1 GW energy storage milestone by samatman on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:35PM (#27851352)
Well, no this is incorrect.

Watts are joules / second, so watt * hours cancels time on both sides, it's just energy. Watt-hours are more convenient than "raw" joules only because we tend to be more interested in how many hours a battery will last at a given wattage, not how many seconds it will last.

So energy capacity is correct, it's the amount of energy (not power) one can store in the battery.

Edit: I read this as though you were replying to me, not the comment I was replying to. Swimming upstream, I see that, yes, "energy storage capacity" isn't in watts, but rather watt * hours, but I agree with @renewiltord that it's easy to understand once you factor in that journalists, for the most part, never took physics.

The numbers have the units next to them, after all.