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A lot of BESS enclosures (sub grid scale, and grid scale) are much more primitive than a warehouse. If you don’t need to pay for HVAC, it’s free money for the operator.


You can also put internal heaters within the battery compartment itself, as with current EV batteries, and have the batteries manage their own temperature automatically.


Resistive heating is pretty wasteful, and heat pumps are expensive. If it's not necessary then leaving it out will be much more efficient.


That’s my core comment here. Batteries already have to fight a lot of entropy, don’t make it harder than you need to




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