New Michael Moore-backed doc tackles alternative energy

The problem with a lot of these predictions, is they're either years old, and really out of date for a quickly changing market, or they just don't really have their ear to the ground. I don't really blame them, it is dynamic right now, and will continue to be. I'm in Texas, I got invited to hear him speak at UT, dude is obviously smart. But, he kept coming to a point that drastically underrated co-location storage (and offshore/hydro in the NE, which i mean, will be a big part of their grid, but maybe that wasn't his research purpose, I don't know). They keep alluding to the fact that everything just gets bogged down from overproduction and curtailment. Yeah, that's inevitable with variable resources, if there was never an economic case for storage, or grid planning was just bad. So, how does Texas' case, where we're in a competitive energy market, look when we're going to have about 5GW of storage knocking on 40%+ renewable generation by 2025? Because that's what's going to happen. 2025 is not a long time when you consider these grid models and predictions. Co-location is coming, and we're going to see all the peak shaving that now has the ability to create dispatchable generation, depending on forecasting and arbitrage value. This is short term, and we'll likely see it commonplace, especially in areas with high penetration already, like California, the wind corridor, and other places with high potential like the W/

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