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OKIsItJustMe

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5. And what is the capacity of the Duke system?

Reply to kristopher (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 08:33 AM

Mar 2016

https://www.duke-energy.com/news/releases/2013020701.asp

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At the Rankin Substation, a 402-kilowatt/282-kilowatt-hour sodium nickel chloride battery system is being used to smooth out large minute-by-minute peaks and valleys in production from a nearby 1.2-megawatt solar facility at a local industrial complex.

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Let’s see… 1.8 MWh -vs- 0.282 MWh…

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^ nationalize the fed Mar 2016 #1

All that for only 12 hotel rooms? NickB79 Mar 2016 #2

Apples are much better than oranges OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #3

Horse apples? kristopher Mar 2016 #4

And what is the capacity of the Duke system? OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #5

That system - like all battery systems - is scaleable. kristopher Mar 2016 #11

Are you implying that a fuel cell system is not scaleable? OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #15

Review the thread kristopher Mar 2016 #16

“not a statement that it is designed for load shifting across seasons.” OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #6

It sure sounds like dumbcat Mar 2016 #9

Yeah… check out this other (smaller) model OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #10

I like the concept dumbcat Mar 2016 #17

If you go with renewable generation you'll require appx. 3X the input generation kristopher Mar 2016 #20

You may want to contact this person as well nationalize the fed Mar 2016 #21

It's not a new concept OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #23

No it doesn't and you know it. kristopher Mar 2016 #12

I don't know it dumbcat Mar 2016 #18

Then I'm happy to have helped ... kristopher Mar 2016 #19

Hydrogen or batteries for grid storage? A net energy analysis OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #7

"...the round-trip efficiency of a RHFC system must increase..." kristopher Mar 2016 #13

For some reason NASA thinks regenerative fuel cells make sense OKIsItJustMe Mar 2016 #8

Because purified water is such an abundant resource in space? kristopher Mar 2016 #14

The fact that something so trivial can even evoke comment, demonstrates in 2016... NNadir Mar 2016 #22