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In 2020, California had 500 megawatts of grid battery storage. Now, just three years later, it has over 5,000 megawatts.

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[–] Eheran 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Megawatt is not a unit for battery storage (watt is power, watthour is energy). Did the author just fail at the most basic level or do they actually mean megawatt in terms of maximum power output and phrased it wrong with storage? Who knows, that's the fun.