{"id":25991,"date":"2017-09-22T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25991"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:45:00","slug":"the-race-for-the-holy-grail-of-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25991","title":{"rendered":"The Race For The \u201cHoly Grail\u201d Of Renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Race For The \u201cHoly Grail\u201d Of Renewables<\/a><\/h3>\n\"Energy\"<\/picture>\n
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In February, AES Energy\u2019s Escondido <\/a>battery storage facility in California was hailed as the largest one to date, with a capacity of 30 MW\/120 MWh. Now, Tesla is building a bigger <\/a>one\u2014100 MW\/129 MWh\u2014in Australia. On the face of it, it\u2019s a race for the bigger battery storage system. But there\u2019s much more to it than that.<\/p>\n

The race is on for increasingly reliable, grid-scale, quick-to-install energy storage solutions that will make the shift to all-renewable power much more realistic. In this, factors such as renewable-friendly regulation and integration of storage systems with renewable power generation capacity can tip the energy transformation scales.<\/p>\n

California is one of the places to be if you\u2019re a renewables fan. Its authorities have ambitious plans in this regard, eventually hoping to replace all fossil-fuel generation capacity with renewables. Wholly reliable grid-scale storage systems are crucial for this strategy, and they are becoming increasingly popular <\/a>in the state.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the initiative to make the 100-percent renewable plan a law fell through<\/a>. Unions, worried about possible job losses, pulled their support. Legislators themselves tweaked the bill, so its goal is now to produce 100-percent greenhouse-gas-free energy. The debate about the feasibility of the plan and how fast it could become a reality continues. California is a cautionary tale for other ambitious clean energy proponents. Related:\u00a0Can Russia Develop Its Shale Reserves?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the leaders of the battery pack are expanding. AES recently teamed up<\/a> with Siemens on a joint venture, Fluence, focusing specifically on energy storage system development. Fluence will deal in AES\u2019 Advancion and Siemens\u2019 Siestorage platforms, the companies said, adding it will target the development of new energy storage capacity across 160 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

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The Race For The \u201cHoly Grail\u201d Of Renewables In February, AES Energy\u2019s Escondido battery storage facility in California was hailed as the largest one to date, with a capacity of 30 MW\/120 MWh. Now, Tesla is building a bigger one\u2014100 MW\/129 MWh\u2014in Australia. On the face of it, it\u2019s a race for the bigger battery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16106,269,13719,5332,674,5094],"class_list":["post-25991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-aes-energy","tag-energy-storage","tag-irina-slav","tag-oilprice-com","tag-renewable-energy","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25992,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991\/revisions\/25992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}