Power=creation+management+storage.
I’ve written mostly about the first part of this equation on this blog, seeing as solar power is mostly a power creation formula. Yet the other two legs are equally important in a world seeking to be more and more self-sufficient, so today I will weigh in on the third part…the storage.
Much is being made of storage these days when considering EV cars and their huge battery banks. Why has nobody made it equally important to use such batteries in the home? Perhaps its because the imperative from the government is not there. I mean, how does it make sense to put in a 20kwatthour battery in a car but not a house? Perhaps the answer is that the car represents our independence far more than a house.
The battery is in fact the challenge not only in the solar industry yet also in the electric vehicle community. This article illustrates well the dilemna faced by car makers, the range anxiety concerns of car owners and the race to the solution.
We will surely see denser batteries in the near future with longer driving ranges. And there are of course people out there convinced that we can then use those batteries to power homes, when their energy is not needed for the cars. The connected world we live in…stay tuned for the middle part, as I leave my hotel room to go the Intersolar solar power trade show in San Francisco…