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Once we get our Tesla Powerwall batteries, that should help with peak demand, no?
by teach 10y ago
Once we get our Tesla Powerwall batteries, that should help with peak demand, no?
- Symmetry 10y agoOnly if they sell power back onto the grid when there's more demand than can be met. Which is a doable thing but we don't have the framework quite in place yet.
- philipkglass 10y agoLocalized storage on households and businesses can help even if it never feeds back to the grid, because it means that batteries can charge via off-peak electricity and switch to discharging to fulfill local demand during grid peak times. It has pretty much the same system effect as discharging into the grid during peak demand but it's more efficient to use the electricity at the same point it was stored.