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So because you don't see anyone upgrading the powerlines by your house that means that there is no work taking place on the power grid?
by fourseventy 3y ago
So because you don't see anyone upgrading the powerlines by your house that means that there is no work taking place on the power grid?
- throwaway50606 3y agoYes, exactly. Where I live it's a political thing so I'd know. The situation now is that they say they're not going to do it because people oppose the higher prices. They even stopped allowing people to connect their solar arrays without large batteries because the grid is that overloaded. (of course they're doing work on it - but definitely not the sort of work required to allow everyone to charge their 1-3 cars per household).
- Arcanum-XIII 3y agoThere’s none in the Brussel area of Belgium. In fact, we’re stuck for the foreseeable future to a grid at 3x220 (nearly the only one in the world) because it’s too costly to update the network, cabin and so on. We’re speaking about industrial level of power delivery to charge all those EV. Things need to change at a huge scale and the operator are not ready for that. Source ? I discussed that with my operator for high power need - their answer was to move elsewhere.
- SECProto 3y agoI was curious about the "grid at 3x220" mention so I did some research. Couldn't find what you meant by this, but did find a page from the electric utility in Brussels explicitly saying there are no problems or work required by the EV conversion plans by 2030. https://www.sibelga.be/en/about-sibelga/projects-challenges/an-electricity-grid-ready-for-the-electric-car https://www.sibelga.be/en/about-sibelga/projects-challenges/...
- martijnvds 3y agoParts of Belgium have 3 phase power with 220V between phases, and no neutral. And protective earth of course. The rest of Europe has 230V, 3 phases + neutral, with 400V between phases.