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Kruxx85 t1_itgnlss wrote

Reply to comment by owaalkes in China is building a 40 gigawatt offshore wind farm, the biggest power plant in existence by mutherhrg

The article states the area chosen should give them around 45% utilisation on that 40GW.

This isn't their only renewable source that they are investing heavily in though.

Something that isn't reported on (that I've seen, anyway) is what China are investing in, in terms of grid scale storage.

It's pretty straight forward that the future is oversized renewable energy, along with massive amounts of storage.

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rabbitaim t1_ith21w1 wrote

Source? The only ones I know about are the redox flow batteries which are meant to supplement grid power during peak usage (night time).

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mutherhrg OP t1_ithjdag wrote

There's there still called google you know. It's pretty much common sense that China would be investing heavily in just about every energy storage solution known to man. They have some of the largest pumped hydro, compressed air, redox flow, thermal storage in molten salt, gravity batteries, lithium ion, green hydrogen projects going on.

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rabbitaim t1_ithxai5 wrote

I was hoping for a comprehensive fact sheet like the one here

https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/us-grid-energy-storage-factsheet

Believe it or not Google can be crap to do research on.

Source: Librarian

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mutherhrg OP t1_iti04z7 wrote

China does have something like that, but it's mostly in chinese. That's the issues with searching for info on chinese systems.

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Kruxx85 t1_itksx0z wrote

So which source were you asking for?

The claim that excess renewables + storage is the future?

If you have any amount of understanding in the energy sector, it's fairly obvious that's the future.

The biggest difficulty is being able to predict the weather in terms of providing the storage generation to overcome the intermittent nature of renewables - but there are already projects around the world working on that technology that are being completed and tested every day.

example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/reneweconomy.com.au/whole-towns-to-be-taken-off-the-grid-and-powered-by-stand-alone-renewables/amp/

That's a very very quick Google, there's a lot more information on the WA governments Western Power distributor working in the renewable electrical grid space

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