Lying "renewablistas" cover needs for hours, not months!

[engineerpoet]

Wind/PV/battery clowns declare their intent to provide rated power for a whole FOUR HOURS:

www.utilitydive.com/news/nextera-inks-700-mw-wind-solar-battery-project-largest-in-the-us/559693/

(Guaranteed grid capacity:  Zero, because batteries run out too fast.)

Somebody SUE these bastards into bankruptcy for lying their a**es off and endangering the public!

[David B. Benson]

It is supposed to replace an open cycle gas turbine for peaking power, aka a peaker. So I suppose 4 hour duration batteries suffices.

[engineerpoet]

And if there's a cloudy day and they can't charge the battery, what then?

They are still going to have to have that gas-fired peaker ready to go, that's what.  That means the consumer will still be paying for it AND the battery AND the PV.  So much for "cheap".

[David B. Benson]

I don't know about WFEC but south of there is ERCOT Texas. ERCOT runs an energy only payment system; see the Simplified Grid Dispatching thread. But when ERCOT starts dispatching reserves, there are also various degrees of load shedding required.

So I doubt that WFEC also has a backup peaker. The article implies not.