Ramping up electric vehicles alongside wind power, roughly 3,000 vehicles per 3 MW turbine, with smart charging, would go a long way to solving the problem of wind fluctuations.

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  Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.

  MacKay’s answer to intermittency was smart charging: roughly 3,000 electric vehicles per 3 MW turbine, soaking up the wind when it blows. Handmer expects stationary batteries to go further and displace transmission itself, pruning the grid rather than balancing it. Both are storage answers to the same problem and they imply opposite things about how much wire to build.

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