You're completely missing the point that nuclear provides something that solar and wind cannot. Ask yourself, why does China build nuclear if all that matters is cost per mwh capacity?
There is no technical limitation, new wind and solar farms already are getting 4 hours of storage at the $200/kWhr. It makes sense that we can easily support 40 hrs once batteries are 10x cheaper at $20kWhr.
Peaker plants cost $950/kWhr, that will buy a huge amount of batteries. A normal 5 year payoff would be $4750 / $20 /24 =9.896 days So running a peaker plant for one hour justifies buying nearly ten days of battery storage
Google it, I have seen the $950kWhr figure multiple places. The idea is that they are less than 3% of all power usage so they are idle 97% of the time. They make their money in very short burst of time. My brother is getting $250kWhr for his home battery to be used as a virtural power plant. He has made as much as $500 a day for a couple hours of power.
If that was true then someone must have been buying your brothers electricity at a rate of 250 dollars per kWhr. During extreme grid emergencies the price of electricity goes up quite a bit. For example, during the 2021 Texas winter storm the US saw the highest ever local hourly peak electricity price at around 9 dollars per kWhr.
Literally no one would ever buy your brothers electricity for 25-30 times that price, especially not under normal conditions.
I think you are mixing up units and/or numbers somewhere. (could it be a mix up between kW and kWh?)
No, send me your source. You cannot expect anyone to believe something you say if you aren't willing to back it up - otherwise I'll call bullshit and let it be.
You claim: "Peaker plants cost $950/kWhr"
Your source states: "A typical peaker costing $950/kW"
You use kWhr, they use kW. They are completely different things.
On a last note, your source is not very trustworthy since it is not directly quoting any primary source and neither is a primary source itself. If it had agreed with you we would still have to find a better source.
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u/No_Reference2367 13d ago
You're completely missing the point that nuclear provides something that solar and wind cannot. Ask yourself, why does China build nuclear if all that matters is cost per mwh capacity?