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having worked on globally distributed caching for the last decade, the absurd abundance of low-hanging-fruit here is genuinely exciting. the system has as clos
by cagenut 4y ago
having worked on globally distributed caching for the last decade, the absurd abundance of low-hanging-fruit here is genuinely exciting. the system has as closed to zero 'intelligence' (software) built in as can be right now, so there's almost nothing but green field ahead.
for example, it would be technically trivial to implement a kind of "lock acquisition" handshake where all the meters downstream of a bottleneck (transformer in this case) request their incremental kW and the utility does basic fair- queuing. even if only new meters and cars did it, it would still help immensely.
- sandos 4y agoYeah, Iv'e also read about packetizing electricity so that you need to sort of allocate units of energy before using them: https://spectrum.ieee.org/packetized-power-grid https://spectrum.ieee.org/packetized-power-grid
- ec109685 4y agoIt doesn’t need to be that smart. Just spreading the charging time across the full evening always would reduce load significantly without transformer level coordination or smart transformers. Kick off charging when grid capacity is lower than a certain threshold, and trickle into EVs based on how much charge is needed. EVs already let you specify when you want to leave in morning, so it’s a small extension to that.