"Today, long-term storage is easily accessed: energy sits in the form of hydrocarbons and we “discharge” energy from hydrocarbon reserves but never recharge them." How do we value infrequent cycles? https://t.co/4tB5zAAgUN
#energytwitter this is one of the forces driving the need to acquire essential grid services in capacity markets @FrontEnergyRes . I'll be presenting the AOCE capacity market design that acquires grid services to PJM on May 30 https://t.co/DkxQrFiiSg
"Each new increment of avoided gas capacity requires an LTS tech with a longer discharge duration than did the last increment because of a long tail of reliability events with progressively longer durations that form the proximal tradeoff point between LTS
@GregVann This link goes into much more detail :) Basically you need short term storage (lithium) to get you through a night (hours), medium term to deal with weather issues (days-weeks) and long term to deal with seasonal differences (months) (not an expe