All of this is true. It doesn't mean that grid based solar and wind are bad.
Subsidies are examples of bad central planning at the hands of the government.
Look into volumetric pricing versus load based pricing. Load based is what you need to keep costs down in the long run. This is because load based pricing changes consumption patterns. Consumers hate it because they want a steady bill and they don't like to change their consumption patterns. Electricity billing has always been volumetric and people are resistant to change.
Volumetric pricing is an example of bad central planning at the hands of a monopoly. (A government mandated monopoly btw.) It means utilities need to match load to demand even when demand is sky high. That's really expensive in aggregate but the cost is socialized and nobody has to change consumption patterns or have inconsistent power bills, so it is the most popular choice. Tragedy of the commons.
Intermittent generation like wind and solar makes the problem worse. They get subsidized because they are popular with the public. Why does the voting public love all these terrible policies? Because the voting public is economically illiterate. They are, quite literally, a bunch of socialists.
Batteries solve the problems of pricing and intermittent generation by time shifting demand patterns. They also save a ton of money by reducing the need for transmission and distribution, the most wasteful part of our electrical grid.
Once you see the whole picture it's clear that batteries are the way forward.
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utilities need to match generation to load
no match load to demand, those are the same lol
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Agreed. All elastic systems need buffer/caching. Butterfly effects can even happen then. But are rarer.
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Wind and solar are demand independent generators, you need a lot of adapting feedback (like load-based pricing) to integrate that succesfully into an electricity system that is demand driven, and even then it is still a source of distortion, a challenge to the reliability.
Batteries are really lacking, lagging in capacity, compared to size and price to be a viable way forward for this problem. We need leaps forward in battery tech, but only seem to be getting small steps.
batteries 🤝 ASICs
demand response in every home
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