Renewable Advocates’ Battery Bet Proves Cost Prohibitive: Report

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Renewable Advocates’ Battery Bet Proves Cost Prohibitive: Report
Net-zero advocates pin their hopes on batteries to fix intermittent wind and solar power, but prices are astronomical.
by Kevin Killough  July 13, 2026, 11:14 AM
 
Renewable energy proponents often claim that the problem of intermittent generation from wind and solar power can be addressed with batteries. [some emphasis, links added]


In an opinion piece on Friday, for example, a Reuters columnist heaped praise on batteries as the technology that would bring about “net zero” — the amount of energy consumed being offset by the amount of renewable energy generated.

“In little more than three decades, ​batteries have moved from an afterthought in energy systems to one of the defining technologies of the transition away from fossil fuels,” Global Energy Transition columnist Gavin Maguire wrote.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/wind-solar-battery-costs/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Economics - fossil fules are some of the most efficient stores of energy on the planet ... and they are under the ground for the taking.

Renewables only + batteries = unaffordable electrcity = aka inflation = energy poverty for the unwashed masses

[roamer_1]

A buddy of mine is messin with turning solar into compressed air... Using the solar to run a 12v compressor whenever it can... that pump serves a big ol repurposed propane tank which he is using for air storage... Then uses the compressed air to run a jenny to turn it back into energy when he need it.

Now, I know there is a whole lot of energy loss between compressing the air and then running the air through a jenny... I get it, and he does too...

But that's a pretty slick way to store energy indefinitely.