Baglino: Overbuilding renewables for winter enables cheap, flexible electrification
Drew Baglino · Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan · Jun 6, 2024 · at 15:18
Former Tesla SVP Drew Baglino explains the grid modeling in Tesla's Master Plan Part 3 for balancing supply and demand in a decarbonized economy.
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“With the current known technology costs for different types of storage and different types of generation, what the model does is it really Largely overbuilds renewables to solve the winter scenario, right? And now you have this large overbuilt renewable base. Well, what does that mean? That means that in many times of the year, and even in the winter on a sunny day, you will be curtailing that, that those renewables if you're not otherwise using it in a, in, in something like charging an EV or charging a thermal battery. And so that's how you get the affordability of these Technologies to be realized because you have overbuilt renewables to that extent.”
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