The development of sustainable energy on land is at risk of coming to a standstill, according to a mid-year update from the regional energy strategies (RES). The 2030 target of at least 35 terawatt hours (TWh) of renewable energy on land will likely be met. However, the more ambitious goal of 55 TWh is increasingly out of reach.
Sodium batteries, man!
Battery parks are definitely the new hot thing, but it takes a long time to get enough capacity that you can take the entire solar peak on a sunny day
Yes, but I imagine that with mass production the panel will be more expensive than the corresponding 1-full-day storage batteries, it’s just a matter of producing them in parallel (or even better, as a single unit), rather than panels first and storage later. This is why you have the mismatch. Which is what makes this decay in sustainable energy investment so puzzling.
Well that, and a multi-decade headstart in solar panels