Couldn&#x27;t one argue exactly the opposite? Since, due to physics, electricity is very hard to store and there are already transmission lines, why not use them?<p>There are going to be factories that probably can&#x27;t realistically be supported by batteries. Another alternative is to run only in the summer and on sunny days.
Or to do all heavy industry&#x2F;manufacturing close to hydro, nuclear or geothermal power sources. In a sense, it would be a return towards the old mill brook economy.<p>They recently opened a big subsea transmission cable between Netherlands and Norway. Norway has mountains for hydro load balancing while Netherlands has wind turbines for volatile production.