Hacker News with Generative AI: Power Grids

US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years (theguardian.com)
Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.
Some Aus states are discovering what happens when they've too much rooftop solar (theguardian.com)
Alerts to possible power shortfalls have become a familiar occurrence. But experts say it won’t be long before the opposite is common
Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts (technologyreview.com)