Best idea I heard with surplus wind power was to use it to pump water back up into reservoirs for hydroelectric plamts. The only way you can make wind power truly Green imo. Kills too many birds,, destroy nature with installations, cost too much money and co2 to make them. Wind generator industry needs to get more efficient.
Yes, water pump storage plants are the most efficient way to „store“ electricity with about 50% to 70% efficiency. But for this mountains are required - probably not a big problem in Norway and also Austria.
Other ways are to temporarily reduce the flow of river run off plants (actually 100%) or in the future battery storage (50%) or H2 (30%).
The best way would be to use the electricity when it is available and not use it when not available, e.g., charge the cars, wash, heat the house, etc. dependent on availability.
Nuclear power backed up with wind and solar are obvious ways to generate the power in the first place. Storage is a different problem, unfortunately we don't have the space for large pump storage schemes in the UK, so batteries are an obvious choice.
A plant in Humberside (Hornsea I think) has just been given the go ahead to produce Hydrogen with spare electricity from wind turbines.
Unless of course you fancy a nuclear powered car like 'Back to the Furure' DeLoren? Perhaps then we could 88MPH in a Jimny.
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