This may seem like it is totally unrelated to grid stabilization for intermittent renewables (solar, wind, ...) but this type of technology could radically change the need to store and release energy.
microbes, bacteria etc are extremely resilient to temporary adversity, when theres a surplus of intermittent energy you can feed them the energy, when there is insufficient energy you can let the cells wait for their next meal.
this also frees up energy otherwise spent on agriculture
EDIT: if the claim is true that SCProtein is end-to-end 20x more efficient than vegetable protein and 200x more efficient than meat protein (implying vegetable protein to be ~10x as efficient as meat protein) then this implies feeding these SCProtein to cattle would result in classic meat but still 2x as efficient as vegetable protein today!
EDIT2: this would result in the following order of footprints of foodstuffs:
* animal meat fed vegetable protein (for the super rich)
* vegetable protein (for the rich)
* animal meat fed solein(for the middle class)
* solein (for the lower class)
The bulk of the population will see an inversion where its more responsible to eat solein-fed animal meat than it is to eat vegetable protein!! This results from the inability / impracticality to feed protein to plants
Another observation, if its 20 times as efficient as growing vegetable protein, then we could easily afford to slash say half of agricultural land, giving enormous areas for solar panels, with about 1 / 2 + 20 x 1 / 2 = 10.5 x as much protein as today.