[Tagging] Power Storage Proposal (RFC)

[Paul Allen]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 14:15, François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Anyway, as all batteries are consistent with IEC generator definition,
> they will comply with a broader one like in OSM.
>

Are you sure that professionals within the industry regard batteries as
generators or is this the result of a strict parsing of the IEC definition
to give a result that was not intended?

It has been a long time since I had any education in the field, and I never
had any direct experience of power generation, but I never heard of
batteries
being referred to as generators.  Maybe somebody might have argued
that technically, batteries could be regarded as a type of generator but
nobody would have regarded them as such.

Looking at the IEC definitions of cells, batteries, etc. I didn't
see anything that obviously classed them as a category of
generator.  They appeared to be distinct from generators.

But maybe things have changed since my education.  Or maybe I
missed the lecture where it was stated that batteries are a type of
generator.  It still sounds wrong to me, like calling screws nails
because you can hammer them in.

-- 
Paul
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