When New York State released its power plan for the future a few years back? Shutting Coal, Gas and even Nuclear & replacing them with Wind & Solar? They allotted (iirc) $1 Billion for battery backup of 1 GW/h. In fact they'd need 1000X that much for their plan = $1 Trillion. Going "full renewable" would need at least 1-2 more Trillion.
"Missed it by that much" eh?
The Manhattan Contrarian pointed this out to them, they utterly ignored it.
When New York State released its power plan for the future a few years back? Shutting Coal, Gas and even Nuclear & replacing them with Wind & Solar? They allotted (iirc) $1 Billion for battery backup of 1 GW/h. In fact they'd need 1000X that much for their plan = $1 Trillion. Going "full renewable" would need at least 1-2 more Trillion.
"Missed it by that much" eh?
The Manhattan Contrarian pointed this out to them, they utterly ignored it.
The best part is that the battery banks are a consumable part. It isn't just a one-time cost of a Trillion.
It is a Trillion bucks every 10 or 15 years.