Gore Street Energy Storage Fund’s Portfolio Increases To Over 1GW
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the Solar Power Portal.
By any measure a GW is a substantial amount of power and the article gives all the figures for the fund.
One thing, I feel, I can say, is that large grid-connected lithium-ion batteries, as deployed by Gore Street, are more reliable than the similar smaller batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters.
The media and especially the financial pages would have had a field day, if a lithium-ion battery caught fire. Certainly Gore Street and others building large batteries, don’t seem to have any planning permission problems from Nimbys.
The Anonymous Widower 
Yes but the limited life is a problem.
Comment by Ben | July 17, 2023 |
I must admit, I believe, there are better solutions for energy storage, that offer similar-sized batteries to lithium-ion.
And they do catch fire, as this story about a Tesla Megapack in California shows.
https://www.electropages.com/blog/2022/10/tesla-megapack-catches-fire-should-lithium-ion-be-avoided-grid-energy
I bet that wasn’t reported on Twitter.
Comment by AnonW | July 17, 2023 |
It is interesting that the life of all battery types have a similar, about 1,000, discharge/recharge cycles. There are some sign of improvements that break this limit. The flow type battery seems to be the exception.
Comment by Ben | July 17, 2023