Recently had a battery storage facility nixed near where I live because the loudest local residents were panicked about possibilities of leaks of heavy chemicals into the groundwater (which is somewhat fair) and a bunch of less reasonable nonsense. Still, assuming the legit risks can be handled, facilities like these are crucial to future growth in electricity demand.
Batteries are deployed quickly, but high-capacity grid connections can take a decade in the planning phase alone. Everyone wants one, and NIMBYs are quick to oppose them. Locating at a decommissioned nuclear plant is a great solution avoiding this issue
We got so many disused industrially polluted sites too that would be great areas for putting battery packs. Ideally they will never pollute or anything, but if one does catch on fire it would be nice if the land it sat on was already polluted and not pristine ground.
You can scale battery installations basically arbitrarily to the size of the grid connection you have. Put the batteries at the end user if you can. Then they get power outage protection and the grid gets much of the same flexibility.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 29.9 ms ] thread6 GWh is approximately 5 kilotons of TNT equivalent.
Would make a big bang should it go off.
Must have a lot of grants and government money for this one to pencil out.