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so the 3.2GWh battery grid storage array, in operation, this is still 1/100th what is needed?

https://www.energy-storage.news/edwards-sanborn-california-s...

You want a 320 GWh installation?

You do realize HVDC grids can do 3,000km energy travel, right? That's basically anywhere to anywhere, continental US. There's already installs like the PDCI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie that take 3GW from north oregon to LA.

There's even transcontinental energy links in the works like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link



> so the 3.2GWh battery grid storage array, in operation, this is still 1/100th what is needed?

That's closer to 1% of what California needs by itself then even 1% of the USA's need. We aren't even taking into account the large and continual growth in electricity demand yet either.


Together with a large and continual growth of battery electric vehicules.


> so the 3.2GWh battery grid storage array, in operation, this is still 1/100th what is needed?

Unless I'm mistaken, the US consumption is 500GWh/day with peaks at 700GW/day, so 3GWh isn't going to do much


"This technology that is starting to emerge is garbage because it's not already everywhere"?


... and so we're back to my first comment, a 100x improvement is still needed for this kind of usage.

3GWh isn't even at a proof of concept stage yet for this kind of usage. Even 10x that would barely be called a POC.




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