Posted on 06/10/2022 4:12:39 PM PDT by george76
The shortage threatens the pace of the U.S. transition away from fossil fuels as the Biden administration seeks to decarbonize the grid by 2035..
U.S. renewable energy developers have delayed or scrapped several big battery projects meant to store electrical power on the grid in recent months, scuttling plans to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar energy.
At least a dozen storage projects meant to support growing renewable energy supplies have been postponed, canceled or renegotiated as labor and transport bottlenecks, soaring minerals prices, and competition from the electric vehicle industry crimp supply.
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Storing power is considered vital to the expansion of solar and wind energy because it allows electricity generated when the sun is shining or wind is blowing to be used at the end of the day when consumers need it most.
The delays span states including California, Hawaii and Georgia, with battery providers including Tesla and Fluence warning of disruptions to supply
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European energy storage projects are also facing delays
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Energy storage makes up about 3% of U.S. operating clean energy capacity
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Prices for lithium-ion batteries, three-quarters of which are produced in China, have soared as much as 20% since last year as lithium and nickel costs rise
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the International Energy Agency says. Battery storage needs to reach 585 GW by 2030 to decarbonize the global power sector, a 35-fold increase from 2020.
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In Hawaii, utility Hawaiian Electric is seeing delays in solar and storage projects it contracted to help replace the state's only coal-fired power plant, set to retire in September.
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Hawaiian Electric spokesperson Sharon Higa said the utility expected just 39 MW of the 378.5 MW of solar and storage it procured to be in service prior to the AES coal plant retiring.
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They know the batteries are the weak part but they’ll still try to force everyone buy an EV . Buy your EV and get your battery in a few years , like Hitler and the Volkswagen Bug , people bought them and never got them
So, ...
We’re supposed to quit with the fossil fuels and trip on down to the electric car store, but, we’re short on batteries.
I believe in intersectionality. We are at the corner of Dumb and Evil.
I was told yesterday by a FReeper that in 5 years 75% of the cars on our roads will be EV.
I said that’s insane, there’s 276 million cars in America.
They would have to build and sell 207 million EV cars.
I was then called a conspiracy theorist for denying his prognostication.
Rockefeller invented the phrase to introduce scarcity and keep oil prices high.
Oil is continuously created by powerful, deep forces in the Earth's core. There is more oil created than can be used up. We have enough coal, oil, and natural gas to last for the next 400 years, and by that time we'll have already began using other methods of energy.
“The shortage threatens the pace of the U.S. transition away from fossil fuels.. “
Here’s a flash for you Jack...we ain’t transitioning!
Q. Where does our electricity come from?
Liberal’s A: Let me tell you this. It should all come from renewable sources, man. Green is the way to go!
Q. Do the math. Renewable sources can’t possibly provide all of our power needs.
Liberal’s A: You’re living in the past, man.
Q. And what about batteries? Where do they come from?
Liberal’s A: Now you’re talking like a fascist. We might have to cancel you.
The shortage threatens the pace of the U.S. transition away from fossil fuels as the Biden administration seeks to decarbonize the grid by 2035..
The question I would love to have someone answer is, what are we transitioning to, solar panels and windmills? Which no doubt helps some, but is a poor substitute at best.
No doubt that sooner or later we will have nuclear fusion, but that may be a while. In the meantime there is no reason we shouldn’t use what we got in form of carbon based energy such as oil, gas as well as coal as by now we have developed pretty clean processes to utilize and extract their energy. Once we have some proper substitutes in place for supplying our energy needs, then I have no objections to reduce our dependency on carbon based sources which of course will never completely go away as most everything we look at as well as touch, such as synthetics is derived from coal as well as gas.
But in the meantime, not making full use of what we got, until we find proper substitutes and replacements is nothing more than outright lunacy designed with the intentions to drive this country in the ground. For any country to thrive and prosper it has to have plentiful sources of reasonable priced energy, without it such countries are doomed to failure which is a given.
EVs and utility storage need different battery systems.
EVs need high KWhr/Kg, and lithium is a light weight metal providing that.
Utility storage needs high KWhr/$ using materials that are readily available in large quantities.
Of course, pumped hydro is probably still better.
Crude oil. Texas Tee.
No such thing as fossil fuels.
5.56mm
I still want to see a solar panel factory running strictly off of solar power and a wind turbine factory running strictly from wind power.
Then you could take it many steps further, all the way out to mining the aluminum required for solar panels frames using solar power. They would have to build all the electric mining equipment and machinery first though.
It’s all very stupid or evil really.
The stone age did not end because they ran out of stones..
These cretins always think that they can outsmart the law ... the law of unintended consequences .... and they always fail.
BTW, do they know where asphalt comes from? Plastics, paint, lubricants, medicines, all disappear too.
Heaven help us....God almighty.
Hydrocarbon cracking.
The Democrats are going to force the end of fossil fuels while the economy crashes and no one can afford to buy the EVs they are supposed to get and there is no lithium to make enough of them or the alternate required public transportation. The end of fossil fuels is the end of plastics and fertilizer. What they are building is depopulation by famine and the dog-eat-dog fight for food that will get a lot of people killed off more directly.
If we move away from oil where are the idiots going to get their tires from?
In Hawaii, the idiot Democrats here think they are going to save the world. The Plant they are shutting down affects the island of Oahu where the majority of people in the state live.
If they have problems I really don’t care.
I live on the island of Hawaii.
About a year ago there was a large fire at a Tesla mega pack facility in Australia. The fire was attributed to a coolant leak that caused overheating and a fire that was very difficult for firefighters to contain. If these mega batteries are to support our grid they will have to be very reliable.
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