Originally Posted By Hamwich
Originally Posted By nick w

What sort of battery can release electricity at grid levels then?
Could you point me towards any info, sounds really interesting.
Nick


Although it's true that you can't get local power up on the the transmission network past the GSPs, that's hardly an issue as all the demand (apart from a very few huge consumers like Network Rail, Corus, etc) happens on the distribution networks, and with only 14 DNOs there's loads of scope of active balancing.

The detailed stuff I have is all protectively marked Commercially Confidential, so I'm unable to share it, but you could Google "Virtual Power Plant" or "National Grid Demand Response Aggregators" for publicly-available information.

You may also be interested to read up on the next Capacity Market Auction which is aiming to introduce aggregated demand response into the system, currently it's about 90% generation / 10%DR, the aim is to move it towards 50/50. This is where the aggregators are mainly looking to drive out value, turning loads and loads of otherwise insignificant consumers into tradeable assets.


Yes, but what sort of battery could produce 240v at, say, 20 amps for more than a minute? And without getting so hot my house would catch fire. Even without trying to get to the house next door.
I appreciate there's tradeable theories and money to be made/invested etc. But what about the battery?
Genuine question, I'm really interested.
Nick