Gina, you didn’t mention the potential of large scale battery storage like Ontario just chose. Battery storage is cheaper than an equivalent LNG plant and can work seamlessly with the existing grid. My wife and I were at earlier meetings about the Kings County wind farm. The people at the meetings I attended were curious and mostly neutral to positive about the possibility. We live close to where they will be located but far enough away that we won’t see them from our valley, people on the south-facing hills probably will but they are 7 km away. We desperately need alternatives to fossil fuels coming online as fast as possible. Solar and wind combined with large scale battery storage are the cheapest most reliable alternatives. Both are relatively fast to build and use the wind and sunlight that is free for the taking, don’t fluctuate in price and can be locally owned and operated, create local jobs and gradually get us off of fossil fuel dependency.
Gina, you didn’t mention the potential of large scale battery storage like Ontario just chose. Battery storage is cheaper than an equivalent LNG plant and can work seamlessly with the existing grid. My wife and I were at earlier meetings about the Kings County wind farm. The people at the meetings I attended were curious and mostly neutral to positive about the possibility. We live close to where they will be located but far enough away that we won’t see them from our valley, people on the south-facing hills probably will but they are 7 km away. We desperately need alternatives to fossil fuels coming online as fast as possible. Solar and wind combined with large scale battery storage are the cheapest most reliable alternatives. Both are relatively fast to build and use the wind and sunlight that is free for the taking, don’t fluctuate in price and can be locally owned and operated, create local jobs and gradually get us off of fossil fuel dependency.
Thanks Peter! Storage is absolutely something that needs to be addressed and I am very interested in more information on those systems.