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by laurencerowe 1459 days ago
I expect it becomes financially unviable if they end up storing it for long. Daily charge/discharge allows them to amortize their annual cost of capital across 365 cycles. Weekly or seasonal storage is going to be much less cost effective.
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Calm, cloudy days do happen, so we either need seasonal storage, or need to be okay with much less electricity on such days.