Not yet, as of version 2.1.293. But I suspect this is coming next.

To avoid these Claudisms, I asked Claude to add instructions to my AGENTS.md. The first line it added:

  Avoid the stock LLM register.

Sigh.

Did it make any difference?

Unless you add battery storage, which is increasingly the case:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/25/solar-and-storage-to-...

> Oh, and also batteries such as the tesla power wall can only be charged and discharged about 1000 times before they have lost a lot of capacity.

Powerwall's cycle life is much better than 1000. The Powerwall warranty guarantees 70% capacity after 10 years of daily cycles (i.e. 3650 cycles). This means they expect the capacity to be substantially above 70%.

We posted an analysis of Powerwall capacity retention: https://www.netzero.energy/content/2025-02/powerwall-analysi...

> The Powerwall warranty guarantees 70% capacity after 10 years of daily cycles (i.e. 3650 cycles). This means they expect

... to have pulled some corporate restructure which leaves a bankrupt legal entity responsible for the warranty claims before they start costing any real money.

Grid-scale storage (and increasingly EVs) use lithium-iron-phosphate battery cells, which don't require cobalt/nickel/manganese.

I guess they're asking where to actually buy them at these prices, not doubting that the price is dropping.

Ah, those are wholesale prices. And the form factor will increasingly be prismatic LFP packs, not cylindrical cells.

For buying LFP cells, I would start here: https://diysolarforum.com/

I think 12 years is an underestimate. Lithium-ion batteries will degrade, but they still have usable capacity. There are Tesla Roadsters still going strong, 15 years in. And the battery cell chemistry has since shifted to LFP, which has longer cycle life.

Furthermore, I would expect that an industrial battery is treated better than an EV. Optimal cooling/charging/discharge rates likely have a large impact on longevity.

You can't really generalize cycles based on chemistry alone. Battery management and usage matters. But two examples with NCA/NMC chemistry:

- The Tesla Powerwall 2 battery warranty[1] is for effectively 3650 cycles (daily cycle for 10 years).

- Many cases of Tesla cars at 200k mileage (~1000 cycles, depends on battery size) with less than 15% capacity loss[2].

And these batteries didn't die after reaching the high number of cycles, they just retained less capacity.

[1] https://energylibrary.tesla.com/docs/Public/EnergyStorage/Po...

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/723734/tesla-model-3y-battery-cap...

Yes, Your phone or laptop though... that we dont have regulations that at least require manufacturers to give users the option to not charge to 100% is beyond me.

Many billions of batteries and thus billions of devices needlessly scrapped.

> It accounts for 20% of California’s renewable energy.

That doesn't sound right. It seems to come from Wikipedia with a 2019 date, but even then:

The Geysers produced 5,543 GWh in 2022 [1].

California generation from renewables:

2019: 64,336 GWh [2]

2023: 76,153 GWh [3]

[1] https://geysers.com/The-Geysers/Geysers-By-The-Numbers

[2] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

[3] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

Maybe an old on-site plaque?

We need all the renewables we can get, and I think you can have both -- utility-scale and rooftop. Rooftop solar (and battery storage) just needs to be cost efficient to offset the rising cost of electricity and make it a good return on investment.

The "attacks on net metering" are merely acknowledging that the proportion of renewables on the grid is high enough that balancing grid supply and demand is becoming an issue. I'm a big proponent of rooftop solar, but the reality is that 1:1 net metering just doesn't make sense once there's a critical mass of solar installed (the duck curve problem). This is not a problem unique to California or the US. If you look at other places with high solar adoption (Australia, EU), you'll find even stricter policies like negative feed-in tariffs: the utility will charge you for exporting solar to the grid.

Battery storage is a solution to that problem, but that's where prices are still too high. I'm actually surprised that battery storage is not mentioned in the article, because that's a critical component of allowing solar/wind to grow further.