Umair Irfan
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Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
The way our power grid works typically is that we have large centralized generators, and then they send power along long transmission lines and then distribution networks to our homes, our offices, and businesses.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
The main issue with that is that electricity has to be used pretty much as soon as it's produced, and so generators have to match the demand instantaneously, minute to minute, second by second, in order to keep the power grid stable.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
It has a lot of benefits. It doesn't typically compete with generators directly because it stores energy. It doesn't generate electricity on its own. And oftentimes it charges up using electricity that would otherwise go to waste. And so essentially, a lot of times it's using electricity that's effectively free.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
And so batteries buy us some time. They help allow some stability and redundancy to provide additional power when it's needed, when parts of the grid have to go down.
Apple News Today
Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East
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