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Virtual Power Plant. These just started coming out, they will replace all peaker natural gas plants. Electricity from peaker plants is 10x costly. VPPs will mak

Virtual Power Plant. These just started coming out, they will replace all peaker natural gas plants. Electricity from peaker plants is 10x costly. VPPs will make it cheaper. More importantly, anyone with a battery (Electric car!) can make money by opting in for VPP. Tesla Electric customers report making as much as $150 a day: https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-report-making-150-day/ https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo... Thats with powerwalls, no reason it can't be done with an EV, definitely a bigger battery.

jjcm 3y ago
I'm really into what Australian startup Roev is doing in that space - they're doing exactly that: leveraging your electric car battery to do arbitrage on the grid. They're targeting larger more industrial/commercial fleets of vehicles as well, which typically have more of an idea of when they'll need their vehicles to be at 100% charge and when they're OK with having them act as grid batteries. Means you make money when your car isn't in use as well.
- contingencies 3y ago
  What does that do to your battery life?