Cause, and effect. Really?

Worry alone is not analysis.

Conversations about the role of batteries in the grid are becoming more complex. Consider, for example, questions about the way in which fast active-power gradients, quarter-hour market design and grid stability might interact.

It seems to me that we’d want excellent causal analysis to get a sense for the interaction effects. The analysis should be rigorous, open-source, well-communicated, a basis for dialogue.

What we often have instead, it seems to me, are plausible stories built from timing coincidences, co-movements, and vivid failure scenarios. A starting point, perhaps, but no more.

Or have I missed something?