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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54907251

The Hungarian government has launched a residential energy storage program with a budget of HUF 100 billion. Under the initiative, households can install 10 kW battery energy storage systems, with a non-refundable subsidy of HUF 2.5 million to support the purchase.

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    10 hours ago

    That totally makes sense and I would like to see that from other countries. Introduce dynamic prices that are cheaper when a lot of renewable energy is in the grid. Charge those home batteries. Use that energy to power your home in other periods. I have a battery for my solar system and it totally is awesome.

    • shane@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I think it is inefficient for each home in a neighborhood to have their own battery. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a big battery for 20 homes or so?

      It feels like individual action when collective action is needed.

      • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        It really doesn’t matter. Those batteries are small. Smaller than a fridge. Like this one box in your cellar with all that crap in it. So they do not take much space and it’s easier to put them into individual homes (just one party involved) than organizing to put them into neighborhoods (many people involved, which ensures that nothing productive will be done)

        • shane@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          49 minutes ago

          But you will need more unused capacity to avoid wasting energy with lots of small batteries than with fewer larger ones. It does matter.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Isn‘t that exactly the green left woke tech Orban is afraid of? I wonder what the Chinese paid them to think green. Not that I‘m complaining but you know there must be corruption involved with Hungary. The incentives are very visible.

    • Kornblumenratte@feddit.orgEnglish
      21·
      11 hours ago

      Yes and no. Such a distributed battery storage system is necessary, if you want to use renewables as main energy source - that would be a green green motivation to implement such a system. There is a potential olive green motivation, too - such a system hardens your energy infrastructure against falling missile debris, smoking accidents and other natural desaster. Well, and against broken gas pipelines - this might even be the main reason? And making money, of course.