I'm from the oil patch too Sparky. Obviously, batteries store...

I'm from the oil patch too Sparky.

Obviously, batteries store energy so you can't directly replace a generating system with a storage system. For a silly example, you couldn't replace a water mill wheel (the generator) with a water storage pond (the battery). Loads of potential but no method of converting the potential to work.

In these places where they have retired diesel and gas turbine generation facilities, where is the electricity coming from to store?

I can see in a grid based system with significant renewables (wind etc) that batteries could bridge the variability of supply with the base load requirements (a f*ck of a lot of batteries required for that on a grid basis).

Not sure that there is enough real estate on an offshore oil n gas platform to set up a wind farm to charge the batteries.

Cheers

Keith.