[quote=ocrenter][quote=meadandale][quote=no_such_reality]Lol. You guys really don’t get it do you.
The rates are going up because we the voters drank the loo laid and dictated the percentage of green energy in the mix by given date. The rate increases are to provide the incentives for the renewables and for purchasing power from the higher cost sources.[/quote]
I found this interesting…adding all these renewables to the grid are causing problems…and they are just having to dump green energy. This just shows that the grid needs to evolve and provide storage solutions. The on demand model doesn’t work as you add a higher proportion of renewables to the mix.
Large scale battery for storage will gradually eliminate this problem, and eliminate the “imported” energy seen in light blue.[/quote]
I don’t think battery storage for the grid will ever be feasible unless costs come WAY down. They seem to be focusing on things like compressed air and other more mechanical methods of converting electricity back into stored energy rather than storing as electricity directly. The mechanical methods tend to be cheaper and have much higher cycle lifetimes.
