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You’re just displacing baseload generation by overgenerating at a time of the day when demand is minimal. You’re actually one of the roots of the problem
by elzbardico 4y ago
You’re just displacing baseload generation by overgenerating at a time of the day when demand is minimal. You’re actually one of the roots of the problem
- hedora 4y agoToday, we used normal amounts (for us - AC was on instead of car charging) of power until 10am, then exported power till 5pm (the car was elsewhere, importing power to charge). For the rest of the demand emergency, we had zero gross import and export. We're back to using power over night. The next obvious thing to fix is that the battery software can't be told to avoid charging during the morning demand spike. (This would have started lowering our energy usage at 7:15 AM and let us flip to exporting power at 8:15 instead of 10am. The same thing happens every day.) Overnight baseload generation is still an issue, but at least there is an obvious path to smoothing the morning / evening spikes. We'd need a house battery with about 1.5x the car battery's capacity to get through the night while also charging the car overnight.