Buy Your Standby Gen-Set Now.

Wisconsin Electric has announced that they will be switching over to windmills, sun-catchers, and batteries to 'provide power' to its customers; they will also have 'peak demand' gas-fired/propane-fired and dual-fuel (coal/gas) plants.

Notice that coal/gas is no longer "baseload".  Baseload will be sun-catchers (when and if it is sunny, so zero at night and not-so-much during winter), windmills (which are about 30% efficacious at best) and "batteries."

You'll save money, they say.

Really?

...Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tore a page off a heckler’s fantasy suggestion of a solar and wind battery-powered future after she stepped into the lion’s den to advocate for oil and gas at a conference hosted by a pro-climate change think tank....

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 ...“Let’s talk about batteries, because I’ve talked to somebody and I want to I want to talk about batteries for a minute, because I know that everybody thinks that this economy is going to be operated on wind and solar and battery power and it cannot,” she said.

“There is no industrialized economy in the world operating that way because they need baseload. And I’ll tell you what I know about batteries because I talked to somebody who was thinking of investing in it on a 200-megawatt plant, $1 million to be able to get each megawatt stored. That’s $200 million for his plant alone. And he would get one hour of storage.”

Smith said that if one wants to have “12,000 megawatts of storage, that’s $12 billion for one hour of storage, $24 billion for two hours of storage, $36 billion for three hours of storage.”...

As I recall, night-time is usually 12 hours or so.  Do the math.

So you'll be getting the batteries from the Battery Fairy and saving money?

No.  You'll be getting them the usual way--by paying taxes which subsidize the "cheap" electricity.

Is this stuff totally reliable?

Buy a backup gen-set and connect it to your natural gas feed.