La produzione di elettricità rinnovabile nei Paesi Bassi è raddoppiata dal 2020 e ora rappresenta oltre la metà della produzione totale di elettricità

source : [https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/39/over-half-of-electricity-production-now-comes-from-renewable-sources](https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/39/over-half-of-electricity-production-now-comes-from-renewable-sources)

Lets go!

the coming task for Netherlands is to expand battery storage and wind power

solar power already covers over 100% of electricity demand on normal summer days in Netherlands, but obviously it doesn’t produce any power at night

short- term battery storage can be successfully used to absorb excess solar in the afternoon and release it during the evening

**in California, battery storage already covers 3.7% of daily electricity demand from April to September, double the share from last year, and its already reducing gas demand**

[https://x.com/mzjacobson/status/1840464899899814085](https://x.com/mzjacobson/status/1840464899899814085)

it wont be long before batteries can cover 10% of daily electricity demand and 30% of night-time electricity demand

now, seasonal storage for winter periods is trickier, and batteries alone won’t do it, so its important for Netherlands to expand offshore wind as well

offshore wind output is pretty stable ,and new offshore wind farms have capacity factors of close to 50% for the whole year

that’s what a lot of people don’t get about battery storage: its expensive in capacity but cheap in generation

if you need it for couple hours every day, its perfect and dirt cheap

grid batteries last roughly 6000 cycles nowadays, and they cost less than 200$ per kwh of capacity

**divide the cost over 6000 charge/discharge cycles , and it would come at only 3.3 cents per kwh.**

**i neglected the cost of buying the electricity ,but most of the time grid batteries absorb electricity when prices are zero or close to zero**

**maintenance and supervision costs are low, as its mostly security guards that have to guard the installations**

**actual buying and selling of electricity is done automatically nowadays**

**even if all these would triple the cost per kwh of grid batteries output, it would still come at a decent 10 cents per kwh**

not to mention prices of grid batteries are still falling by 20% every year