I’m all in for clean energy, however our battery,
Power storage technology just isn’t up to it, yet.
not everybody can have a Grand Coulee dam.
Very true. Your upstream neighbors really get upset.
Respectfully, it's probably best if we not use the left's jargon and call it "clean energy". I prefer the term "alternative energy". I'm not convinced things like solar are better for the environment.
That being said, I'm with you on the possibility that maybe one day the power storage tech will be there. But not now. About the only practical use I see for battery storage for the grid is something like catching a sudden increase in load.
Maybe if there are times that the grid operators are caught surprised at demand spikes and need a few minutes to ramp up reserve power plants (i.e. a natural gas fueled plant that they run only at peak times like a 100 degree summer afternoon). Maybe the battery storage can temporarily handle the power deficit until the reserve plant is online.
My decentralized solar, with battery storage, works amazingly well...for a single residence's purpose...and not allowing me to be all the way off the grid. It does enough to save me more than it costs me, but that's it. I can't have all the 1st world creature comforts and be off-grid without getting a way too expensive upgrade to my solar capacity, inverter capacity, and storage capacity.