Comment by tialaramex
4 hours ago
Storage makes the difference, in both cases. You can black start from GFM-BESS. And I believe theoretically if you've got a big solar farm strapped to that BESS you can even wait until daylight and straight up black start your entire system from empty, the BESS will cheerfully fill with solar power despite no grid, and then once you've got enough juice to press the button you can black start your entire network.
Correct, but then the credit for that capacity rightfully goes to the battery, not to solar panels for their ability to generate more than needed at other times.
No, it doesn’t.
Every kWh hour of solar entering the grid is a kWh of fossil generation that is no longer produced. Batteries just move existing power around. This is not very complicated, I’m not sure why the semantic crusade?
The article is about recorded actual supply contributions over a year, actual kWh, regardless of instantaneous capacity at various times.
Every kWh of produced and accepted(not curtailed) solar power is directly responsible for reducing our emissions