Battery storage in The Netherlands - Transmission (Rens Savenije: Business Lead at Ventolines)

[@davidfellowes1628]

Well said Rene, policy is blind to the exciting changes underway. It is so strong.

[@oopskapootz7276]

Great conversation, thank you both for sharing this, I learned a lot.

[@cyberslim7955]

30:00 We don't need these old powerplants, we need battery power plants to replace them ASAP.

[@thomasgade226]

@14min it's unusual to move towards shorter duration (1hour -> half hour) , other markets like Australia are moving from 1 hour to 2, 4, 8 hours

[@cyberslim7955]

25:00 Dynamic tariffs are coming in Germany, but they are not what we want/need. We need battery power plants, in order to make the grid much, much larger, much much more robust without expanding cables...

[@oopskapootz7276]

18:00 wait, so the battery operators pay grid fees proportional to their off-taking for anything they "consume" from the grid, even if they later put that energy back during peak load? So they are paying fees for helping the grid?

[@oopskapootz7276]

The rest of the interview went into all the details I was wondering about this, so thanks again!

[@smijas]

Great info! Focus on local balanced grids. Maybe government should be involved in the permit-fase, where you can only get a high level grid connection if you contribute to the local cycle of poduction and consumption.

[@clivepierce1816]

Some good insights but the comment about building more nuclear makes no sense in the context of the transition to renewables and battery storage. Nuclear is grotesquely expense - look at the price the public will pay for energy from Hinckley C - daylight robbery. Invest the money in retrofitting the U.K.’s 30 million homes to EnerPhit energy efficiency standards and cut annual electricity consumption by 200 billion kWh a year.

[@Ikbeneengeit]

Also nuclear doesn't load follow so it doesn't create as much value per MWh

[@PeterBakker]

SMR have a low LCOE and are far more stable then Hydrogen at the moment. They might solve local heavy energy more easy because they also generate a lot of heat. The technology is know for 50 years now. Tried, tested and under great scrutiny. The demands fo isntalling a big one are so ridiculous. That makes them even more expensive. France prices for nuclear are somewhat the same as for wind or even cheaper.

[@cyberslim7955]

Luckily the guest shut him down right away with nuclear waste. Has he dug a hole in his garden to receive his portion of waste to take care of?

[@Ikbeneengeit]

Great interview.

[@davidfellowes1628]

Co-location assets on a regional or local level appears to be the way forward and circumvent the political and commercial giants who are squeezing the energy market.

[@PeterBakker]

I hope co-locations also will work for local areas and not only for generators. Congestioon is all about local production in my view

[@davidfellowes1628]

@@PeterBakker I agree 100% but their voices to date have not been heard. Whether we need to speak louder, or have those in authority listen to the merits of our case.

[@thomasgade226]

In Ireland, that's illegal. A battery and solar farm are not allowed to share a grid connection at less than the sum of their max capacity