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by ZeroGravitas 39 days ago
No, batteries do that better too.

Variously called "synthetic inertia", "virtual inertia" or "grid-forming inverters".

Some people treat the spinning metal like vinyl records and think you can't get that "warmth" with the new tech but on objective measures, including cost, they win.

People install them because they were the old tech for this, and there's lead times and caution, it's just slowly changing legacy not something batteries can't physically do better.

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Ah, that's nice to hear. This also means we won't have to have another type of hardware on grid, since the batteries can make this work.