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home appliances should be aware of the home's solar panels somehow. you could fill a washing machine and have it wait a few days and turn on if the solar panel
by jlebrech 8y ago
home appliances should be aware of the home's solar panels somehow.
you could fill a washing machine and have it wait a few days and turn on if the solar panels are at full usage.
other things could operate at peak hours (dishwasher)
you could also pump water into a silo when it's bright outside.
- t0liman 8y ago>home appliances should be aware You mean IoT installed into wallplugs and whitegoods appliances, pool pumps, heaters, washers, heat pumps/air conditioners, hot water systems, etc. Yeah. If there was only an IoT standard that worked to allow for usage to be monitored and devices to be switched on/off in a standard way ... sure. There are "appliances" like HomeAssistant.io and OpenHAB and Domoticz out there to micro-manage these peripheral home devices and monitor consumption/excess/PV generation, and rulesets that can trigger responses and excess/egress of energy, but it's too complex for the Inverter/Solar managers to take care of usually.
- jlebrech 8y agoit's better to spend the energy directly than to sell it cheap now and buy it expensive later.
- usrusr 8y agoAs long as feed-in tariffs are artificially high (e.g. anything not noticeably below 1:1), neither xkcd:927 nor total absence of standards are what is keeping solar-aware consumption from happening. PS: I absolutely don't want the subsidies to go away, I want them restructured into better subsidies that do not nullify other important incentives.