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Environment & Energy

kentauros

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2. It's an appropriate term due to the nature of the law.

Reply to hunter (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:46 AM

Dec 2014

That is, transmission companies cannot generate electricity, and vice versa. Batteries are seemingly classified as generators (I guess because they put electricity into the transmission lines, even if it's originally just stored energy.) The company proposing this is a transmission company.

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Texas Law Could Short-Circuit Battery Breakthrough [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2014 OP

Um, does the newspaper's headline writer know a short-circuit is a bad thing??? hunter Dec 2014 #1

It's an appropriate term due to the nature of the law. kentauros Dec 2014 #2

I really wish they could get their terms straight dumbcat Dec 2014 #3

Yep. In any case these batteries are not really about energy storage... hunter Dec 2014 #4

The stored energy is used dumbcat Dec 2014 #5

Mathematically, yes. hunter Dec 2014 #6