[LDES-technology] Piece from Jesse Jenkins

[Daniel M. KAMMEN]

There are simple to more complex ways to do this.

We are now getting the first round of long-term energy storage results out
of SWITCH (both for the WECC and for Japan) for both H2, pumped hydro, and
other storage (thanks to Kenji and Julia). The results on the integration
of H2 and storage (and transmission capacity and costs)

Dan

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:59 AM Sarah Kurtz <skurtz at ucmerced.edu> wrote:

> 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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