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Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by silence7 to c/energy

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I'll note that aggregate system cost still benefits significantly from including wind and other non-solar sources of energy; having a mix of different intermittent sources (and some firm generation such as geothermal) means less storage is needed.

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[–] silence7 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sodium-ion is one of several technologies which might end up being how we do storage; there are a bunch of iron-chemistry flow battery technologies which might be cheaper. It's not at all clear which will be the best choice for stationary storage at this point.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I think it doesn't matter too much. Suboptimal energy storage is still much better than none.