new Dr Rajiv J. Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation and Co-chair of the Global Leadership Council said, “Without sufficient storage capacity, countries will be unable to add renewable energy to their grids at the scale needed to reduce emissions and create economic opportunity. The BESS Consortium is an example of the sort of big, bold action required to break down the barriers keeping so many people and communities from joining the climate transformations underway.”... — Ecofin Agency, 14h ago

new The idea of using liquid CO2 for energy storage is simple enough, now that low cost renewable energy is at hand. During periods when renewable energy output is high but electricity demand is low, grid managers have to order curtailments in wind or solar capacity. With a CO2 storage system, the excess kilowatts can be put to work running compressors that convert a large volume of CO2 gas to a smaller volume of liquid. When released from compression and heated, the CO2 expands back to a gas and is put to work running turbines to generate electricity. — CleanTechnica, 2d ago

new ...“Collaboration is crucial to effectively address the challenges of climate change at the scale we need. Supporting green infrastructure like BESS will build more sustainable and inclusive economies for everyone. Together with the IDB, GEAPP’s Global Leadership Council is working to build a more prosperous future for Latin American and the Caribbean region.”... — The Rockefeller Foundation, 2d ago

new The fact is that building a wind/solar/storage electricity system without fossil fuel backup does not provide cheaper electricity than a predominantly fossil fuel system, but more expensive electricity. And the additional expense is not some small amount like 10 or 20 or 30 percent. It’s more like a multiple of 10 or 20. Nobody knows exactly how much, because there does not exist anywhere in the world a working demonstration project from which costs can be benchmarked and extrapolated. As you start to eliminate the fossil fuel backup from the system, far and away the predominant costs become the energy storage and/or overbuilding. The costs of the wind turbines and solar panels themselves become relatively insignificant. As noted, Germany has gotten to about 50% of its electricity generation from wind and solar, with so far about a 2 times overbuild of capacity, and almost no storage. With the next round of overbuild of capacity, should they do it, they will be lucky to get to 60% of electricity from renewables; and each successive round of overbuild adds less useful electricity and more that must be discarded. Meanwhile, storage is ruinously expensive in quantities that are meaningful to keeping the lights on year round. — Watts Up With That? • The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change, 2d ago

new Increased Resilience: Having redundancy in charging infrastructure enhances the resilience of the energy system. If one charging point fails or faces issues, there is a backup option, reducing the impact of potential disruptions. — Energy Central, 2d ago