Green Energy

2231 readers

38 users here now

Everything about energy production and storage.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

poVoq

SteveKLord

Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening | The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively (www.ft.com)

submitted 2 months ago by silence7 to c/energy

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This post uses a gift link which has a view count limit.

When that runs out, there are archived copies of the article at:

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$279 a year to read articles?!

Anyways, I do t know why potential energy storage isn't used more

Use available energy to pump water up hill or into a tower, when you need the energy let it flow down thru a turbine. Then during the day or when it's windy and there's an energy surplus, pump it back up again

It's not perfect and not the best, but requires almost no rare earth minerals like traditional batteries

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean in the UK that's almost exclusively the form of grid scale energy storage takes, indeed one of the largest generating plants in the UK is a pumped hydro facility.

As to why ti's not deployed more it's matters of location and cost often feature heavily.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

indeed one of the largest generating plants in the UK is a pumped hydro facility.

That's awesome, thanks for letting me know