[LDES-technology] Piece from Jesse Jenkins

[Sarah Kurtz]

You may have joined us last fall for a presentation from Jesse Jenkins. He and his set of collaborators are making the case for “Clean Firm Power”

As we discussed before, this is betting on the success of carbon capture and sequestration, as we discussed with Julio Friedmann.  But, in this piece, they go even further, concluding:

California’s government could require utilities to build some form of clean firm power now and allow cost recovery for their implementation.
Long duration storage may provide another useful arrow in the quiver, but systems with clean firm power remain meaningfully less expensive.

However, they aren’t very clear about exactly what they have in mind, but they are clear that the state should start funding “Clean firm power” over “Long duration energy storage”. Would we agree?

https://issues.org/california-decarbonizing-power-wind-solar-nuclear-gas/
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