If 272 million light duty vehicles in the US were all 100 kWh BEVs, they would store enough energy to run the entire US electricity grid for two and one-half days, holding 27,248 GWh. We will be halfway there by 2040.pic.twitter.com/jNzExxaC5E
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A good paper from 2015 by
@DKeithClimate makes the underappreciated point that today's gas plants work as infrequent backup for more wind+solar, with potentially very low avg CO2. Along with utility scale batts/V2G, many ways to skin the storage cat!https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6wfH8hIAchFa1NPMXVpMk9MQ2M/view …
Thank you for sharing! Fascinating, properly modelling the dynamics of prices of alternatives impacting market shares. Also, achieving low cost bulk storage may not be a necessity even for a zero carbon grid, given dispatchable hydro, nuclear, CCS & falling costs of RE.
