The headline looks wrong, but it actually isn't.

The article specifies:

• Total capacity: 2.1GWh
• Peak output: 1.2GW
• Ramp up time: a few milliseconds

That's what the "within milliseconds" in the title refers to.

Every power generator has a ramp up time. Think the time it takes to start the engine in a diesel generator, until it spins up and is able to output peak power.

Nuclear reactors can hare ramp-up times of hours, in some conditions even days.

This thing here can go from zero to peak output within almost no time, which makes it perfect to balance the sometimes erratic and unpredictable generation fluctuations of renewable energy production.

For comparison, coal or gas power generators usually have large flywheels that, once spinning, react almost instantly to power fluctuations in the network by converting their motion to electricity or the other way round. If these coal or gas generators aren't running, they can't be used to balance the fluctuations in the network, so battery solutions like the one in OP are required to actively manage the network stability.

The article doesn't explain the battery, making it a bullshit site if you ask me, here is what they are talking about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery

'The vanadium redox battery (VRB), also known as the vanadium flow battery (VFB) or vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB), is a type of rechargeable flow battery which employs vanadium ions as charge carriers.[5] The battery uses vanadium's ability to exist in a solution in four different oxidation states to make a battery with a single electroactive element instead of two.[6]

For several reasons, including their relative bulkiness, vanadium batteries are typically used for grid energy storage, i.e., attached to power plants/electrical grids.[7] '

Goddammit, they are 0.01 Gigawatt short of time travel. 😋

Wow, that's almost 10% of a single datacenter

One point twenty one gigawatts?!

Fuck these incompetent headline writers who cant use units correctly. At this point they are doing this shit on purpose to ragebait people into reading the article. And they dont even explain what that headline is supposed to mean in the article. Does the output power ramp up that fast or do they mean that it can actually just output a lot of energy really fast?

1.21 Jiggowatts?! Is there a GIF?

We don't know soccer fields around these parts...

They just had the first stone laying ceremony so that explains the new wave of publications on the project.

They are using a Vanadium flow battery by the company Invinity Energy Systems which is British-Canadian.

I'm a little unsure whether it's a good idea to combine this with a datacenter, I hope the datacenter bubble popping won't jeopardize the whole project.

The Swiss are on the frontline of climate change seeing that it is destroying their mountains which in turn are destroying their villages. Sad times.

able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds

By exploding?

What is a size of a soccer field

Yeah, no, it's not going to output 1.2 gW in milliseconds.

Asked for comments, they kept saying "Rest assured there is no death ray plans"

(/j)

Don’t stick your thing in it!!

Remember Wally? Ooof. I mean, kind of a jerk and all but. What a way to go.

$1 per WH or almost that is pretty terrible. You can get battery systems for 1/4 of that $/WH at Home Depot.