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I know this article is supposed to be some weird dunk on Texas' power grid, but what is wrong with demand leveling? As more car become electric this is going to
by megaman821 4y ago
I know this article is supposed to be some weird dunk on Texas' power grid, but what is wrong with demand leveling? As more car become electric this is going to become common. If you have solar panels, charge your car during the excess power times. If you are using the grid, charge when demand is low.
Texas has a lot (and has the potential for even more) wind and solar energy. Like the rest of the US grid, Texas needs to build more transmission lines to move the power from the middle of nowhere to the densely populated areas.
- ajross 4y agoThere's absolutely nothing wrong with demand leveling. Devices with large battery capacity are absolutely what you want to exploit to buffer short term shortfalls in capacity. It's comparatively trivial for car owners to limit charging to off-peak hours, so we should absolutely do that. That said: the reason this is a problem at all is Texas's criminal joke of a power infrastructure, and that deserves to be dunked on irrespective of mitigation strategies.
- megaman821 4y agoTexas' power infrastructure is exactly what is was incentivized to be. The same with the baby formula shortage. Up and down the economy we don't have the resilience to deal with demand or supply shocks. This short-sitedness needs to be discouraged and punished. I don't think Texas stands alone though, there are a lot of states and industries ill prepared to deal with any shocks to the system.