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Your math is off by three orders of magnitude. The scale of the Onslow pumped hydro scheme is in billions of kWh, not in millions of kWh.


https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/business/about/our-researc...

Indeed the above puts it as having 8TWh storage capacity (and perhaps 1.2GW power). Longer duration storage, with low cost to hold the energy (which hopefully does not evaporate too much during the bountiful times).


Thanks for the correction. So this pumped hydro storage is at least 200x cheaper per kWh than current LiPo based solutions.




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