Absolutely rubbish. We figured it out years ago that you don’t need to destroy farmland by installing solar panels fields and you don’t need massive battery storage facilities.
This centralised approach doesn’t really help the end user. It only helps the big players taking control over the Sun and wind and stuff their own pockets.
We even developed a “virtual battery” concept, using just a blockchain, where basically regular users would just share their own energy excess (from their privately owned panels/batteries) between themselves. Using the already existing cables infrastructure, already existing PV private systems, with close to zero energy loss due to the close proximity of exchanging points, etc.
No third parties involved, peer to peer energy transfer, secure and transparent settlement…
As this project would never fill in any big companies accounts and people looking more for the “convenience” those companies shoved down their throats, it never had a chance to be launched at scale.
Maybe sometime, in the future, people will decide they can achieve better results for themselves if they decide that the “convenience” is not always the answer.