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That's just externalizing costs though. Instead of building a large battery at the power station, you're building lots of little batteries everywhere else. Eve
by DennisP 3y ago
That's just externalizing costs though. Instead of building a large battery at the power station, you're building lots of little batteries everywhere else.
Even demand management can be an externalized cost. If a factory shuts down half the time, then you need twice as many factories to produce the same stuff.
- tialaramex 3y ago> If a factory shuts down half the time, then you need twice as many factories to produce the same stuff. No. It means you might need twice as much of whatever the bottleneck is, assuming that's a real time manufacturing resource which it might well not be. You definitely don't need twice as many whole factories. And if that bottlebeck isn't energy intensive that's not the problem at all, you can just re-arrange the energy intensive parts and you won't even need more factory.
- tshaddox 3y agoI'm not sure I would call it "externalizing costs" if the only change was making daytime energy significantly cheaper (and not increasing off-peak energy prices). You could simply not add any batteries and your costs would still go down. You would presumably only decide to add batteries if the cost of doing so was less than the money you'd save by shifting energy usage to cheaper times.