The most exciting news I've heard in some time. I had no idea battery technology had progressed this far.
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The twin smokestacks of the Moss Landing Power Plant tower over Monterey Bay. Visible for miles along this picturesque stretch of the north Californian coast, the 500-foot-tall (150m) pillars crown what was once California's largest electric power station – a behemoth natural gas-fired generator. Today, as California steadily moves to decarbonise its economy, those stacks are idle and the plant is largely mothballed. Instead, the site is about to begin a new life as the world's largest battery, storing excess energy when solar panels and wind farms are producing electricity and feeding it back into the grid when they're not.
As much as I apprecaite the progress, that article rubs me the wrong way in that it keeps saying “X megawatts” as if that’s wnough to tell me the storage capacity of the batteries. “Megawatt” is a unit for power, a rate of energy output per unit time. It’s not a unit for energy, which is important to understand just how much energy the batteries can store. I want to see numbers in “megawatt-hours.”
