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This is the way, right here. Just get your utility to distribute a bunch of 5MW batteries around your distribution system and boom, grid problems solved. (Got a whole pod coming up on this.)

canarymedia.comFor cheaper power, Virginia’s local utilities build small grid…Rural co-ops and a city utility will save big with a collection of 5-MW batteries, which are easier to site and faster to get up and running than…

4/5/26, 5:12 pm60 reposts240 likes

Robert Merkel

@rgmerk.bsky.social

4 May

Interesting. "Community batteries" on the distribution grid have been a bit of a bust here in Australia, in part because the grid owners are building bespoke solutions for each location and you'll be shocked that that is very expensive. So your usual standardisation question is relevant here!

Robert Merkel

@rgmerk.bsky.social

4 May

(David already knows this, but for the benefit of others who read this both "big batteries" on the transmission grid, and behind-the-meter home batteries, are going gangbusters here in Oz).