electrical grid

“If you distributed like over 10 kilowatt hours per home in the U S like. You can ride out pretty major like outages. And the big story with like a heat wave is heat waves are really bad for the grid because essentially everyone's turning their AC on full blast…”

“Electricity is not getting cheaper though, because transmission ends up getting more and more and more expensive over time. So like getting it from point A to point B, there's like long delays on the interconnect queue. It takes forever to build transmission. …”

“If you want to put a hundred megawatts of batteries on the grid today, depending on the state, it's going to take you anywhere from two to five years.”

“So if you look at other competitive battery products that are like sold mostly to wealthy people at very high costs, they're like small, typically wall mounted, take a long time to install and aren't really focused on supporting the grid.”