Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change
by elektromekatron on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:07PM
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Apparently distribution of storage to the extremities of a grid helps massively with reducing the peak power you have to force over a long distance interconnect, and it actually works out cheaper now in many situations to put in lithium at the far end, than upgrade the cable.
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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change
by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:14AM
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At least one US utility claims that residential solar has a similar win/win impact if the solar generation coincides with the transmission peak. Presumably the two technologies would work together well in this regard too.