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Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're essentially the same thing on the scale of a national grid. Battery banks can turn on the juice in microseconds.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    grid buffering does not need that. It's literally guys looking at demand and phoning around to turn up or down generation.

    Fun fact: this was the first in a series of events that caused the Chernobyl explosion.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Oh yeah, it's massive overkill for the conventional grid. It's just one of the things I see people say when trying to get people to accept that battery banks can make a renewable-only grid viable here in Australia.

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