Thread by @JesseJenkins

@ramez @JustinHGillis @cody_a_hill @chrisnelder @hausfath @KarstenCapion @AukeHoekstra @DrChrisClack @EmilDimanchev @robbieorvis @SimonMahan @electronecon @noahqk @IEA @DrSimEvans @MLiebreich @DetlefvanVuuren @nworbmot @TomRaftery @ChristianOnRE @solar_chase How many days are you going to do it per year? What are you going to pay to fill the battery each time you cycle? Are you using your solar all the time? Why not size your storage to charge from the grid as well? A single cycle per day or two?

@ramez @JustinHGillis @cody_a_hill @chrisnelder @hausfath @KarstenCapion @AukeHoekstra @DrChrisClack @EmilDimanchev @robbieorvis @SimonMahan @electronecon @noahqk @IEA @DrSimEvans @MLiebreich @DetlefvanVuuren @nworbmot @TomRaftery @ChristianOnRE @solar_chase I get it that if you want to promise a simple transaction under long-term contract to deliver power every day @ the same hour, you can make this work. Maybe that's how your contracts work @cody_a_hill. But seems like both a lot of risk & lot of $ left on the table for such deals.

@ramez @JustinHGillis @cody_a_hill @chrisnelder @hausfath @KarstenCapion @AukeHoekstra @DrChrisClack @EmilDimanchev @robbieorvis @SimonMahan @electronecon @noahqk @IEA @DrSimEvans @MLiebreich @DetlefvanVuuren @nworbmot @TomRaftery @ChristianOnRE @solar_chase Storage is an asset, independent of the solar, and can do a lot of stuff besides shift solar every day by four hours and discharge over four hours or whatever. And the cost of doing so is a lot more variable and context dependent than a $/kWh "adder" tells you.

@ramez @JustinHGillis @cody_a_hill @chrisnelder @hausfath @KarstenCapion @AukeHoekstra @DrChrisClack @EmilDimanchev @robbieorvis @SimonMahan @electronecon @noahqk @IEA @DrSimEvans @MLiebreich @DetlefvanVuuren @nworbmot @TomRaftery @ChristianOnRE @solar_chase But whatdoIknow. I'm just a curmudgeonly academic. 😉

@ramez @JustinHGillis @cody_a_hill @chrisnelder @hausfath @KarstenCapion @AukeHoekstra @DrChrisClack @EmilDimanchev @robbieorvis @SimonMahan @electronecon @noahqk @IEA @DrSimEvans @MLiebreich @DetlefvanVuuren @nworbmot @TomRaftery @ChristianOnRE @solar_chase dropbox.com/s/2kwkuzbqr6r3…