The Home-Based Battery Storage Fantasy

The Home-Based Battery Storage Fantasy
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Jonathan Lesser
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According to a recent article published in The Conversation, installing millions of storage batteries distributed through the grid—in homes, businesses, and local communities—coupled with wind and solar generation, can avoid investments in new transmission infrastructure. But unless installing those batteries is accompanied by physically disconnecting from the grid—or unless consumers are willing to forgo reliable electricity—this claim is yet another example of electricity “magical thinking.”
Jonathan Lesser
Jonathan Lesser
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Jonathan Lesser is a senior fellow with the National Center for Energy Analytics, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, and the president of Continental Economics. His report, “Green Energy and Economic Fabulism,” was published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.