IIRC one of the big ideas behind ARES is to make money by supplying peak power for consumption and possibly even by taking peak power production off the grid.

IIRC one of the big ideas behind ARES is to make money by supplying peak power for consumption and possibly even by taking peak power production off the grid. Basically a grid scale AC capacitor equivalent. I only have education in electronics and no other experience with High Voltage or big grids so I might be very wrong.