> The past few days wind has been pretty bad.

Except... it was not.

Here.

And somewhere, the sun is shining.

People need to _stop_ thinking energy production is hyperlocal when, in reality, it is not.

And never has been.

Now, swedes are complaining, germans (i.e. me) are buying energy and raising prices. There will be a time, when they will import energy from us. Just as much as we exported energy to France when half their atomic powerplants have been shutdown due to no cooling water available.

Is it helpful to beancount each and any time more energy has been exported than imported or the other way around? No, i don't think so.

And yes, the next big challenge is to build grid-level energy storage.

Yes, with batteries. No, hydrogen is not the answer. Batteries it is. Get moving, stop complaining.