Seems like the linked concept is similarly making something more complicated in the hopes that somehow makes it better.
Because battery storage is legitimately better in terms of reaction time and efficiency: pumped hydro is 2 min from 0 to 100%, with a total efficiency ratio between .65-.85 [1], gas plants are at 3-5 minutes (peakers)/up to 30 min (combined power+heat) [2] and .35-.50 efficiency ratio (more if thermal energy is captured, but that only makes sense for non-peaker plants that also provide district heating)... whereas a battery plant's reaction time can be measured in milliseconds.
That's orders of magnitude faster and is what makes decentralized battery storage worth it.
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Because battery storage is legitimately better in terms of reaction time and efficiency: pumped hydro is 2 min from 0 to 100%, with a total efficiency ratio between .65-.85 [1], gas plants are at 3-5 minutes (peakers)/up to 30 min (combined power+heat) [2] and .35-.50 efficiency ratio (more if thermal energy is captured, but that only makes sense for non-peaker plants that also provide district heating)... whereas a battery plant's reaction time can be measured in milliseconds.
That's orders of magnitude faster and is what makes decentralized battery storage worth it.
[1] https://um.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/energie/versorgungssiche...
[2] https://www.ingenieur.de/fachmedien/bwk/erneuerbare-energien...
[3] https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/nachrichten/australien-ri...