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I will look into this, as others here will too.

Primary thoughts with respect to alternative energy and UK is bovine scat.
When I hear hoof beats, I don’t look for Zebras…

Another words this will be great and work extraordinarily well when consumption is down to zero, no more gas stoves, oil to heat your homes, wood stoves to keep warm, electric cars to be monitored and charged only when you are told to and candles

Here are my thoughts, as someone who likes decentralized solar in a free market world (install it for yourself if you want it), but think it's always wasteful money for undependable power in the utility world. This article supports my assertion.

Here's how I calculate their cost per kWh of storage. They paid $99.1 million for 107MWh. That comes out to $926,168 per MWh. To put it in kWh to make it comparable to home solar storage, divide by 1,000 and that's $926/kWh. Which is crazy expensive.

My home solar battery stack, including the racks and cables and such, cost a hair under $28K for a hair over 92kWh. That's $304/kWh. I paid a THIRD of the price they paid, and that was with my prices artificially inflated from the dumb solar tax credits.

Even the brain-dead greenies who support solar at the utility level (which I hate because utility power should be dependable) should be offended that their government spent so much for this battery storage project.

“Primary thoughts with respect to alternative energy and UK is bovine scat.”

Last November the UK, for the first time, had a 24-hour period when total energy generated by renewables exceeded all other sources.

Last year 97% of all electricity consumed in Scotland was generated by renewables.

The displacement I described above is already happening.