With a mind toward the growing population in the Lone Star State and a robust renewables output, there is something of a battery boom underway in Texas. | via texasstandard
and spoke with Texas Standard about what this means for the grid and consumers. Listen to the story above or read the transcript below.Texas Standard: A battery boom in both Texas and California – before we get to the “why,” tell us a little bit more about the “what.” What kind of batteries are these, and where are they going?These are lithium ion batteries, quite similar to what are being put into these new fleets of electric cars.
I get why they would be doing this in Texas, especially; we both mentioned the 2021 blackouts. What about California – what’s their interest here? Yeah, there have. And California does, you know, have a decent amount of batteries, but nothing like what is now being projected to be built over the next three years. They’re talking about a two-and-a-half-fold increase in the amount of batteries on the grid mostly over the next two years – to some degree through 2025, as well.Yeah, it’s like a lot of these things, they just keep refining the technology and it’s gotten cheaper and cheaper.
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