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lenerdenator | on: The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Is the point of the battery not to add 9s with solar?
boringg | parent
Yes the point of batteries is to add backup power when solar goes down - and it does. However the two of them do not get to 4 9's of uptime which is needed for these large data facilities.
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