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I don’t know all of the variables to calculate that properly, things like electricity savings from closing refineries and petrol stations are things I can’t cal
by thebruce87m 3y ago
I don’t know all of the variables to calculate that properly, things like electricity savings from closing refineries and petrol stations are things I can’t calculate. I do see a lot of people spreading FUD on the topic that don’t know either so I’m interested in what your numbers are. What do you think the impact of 25% EV ownership would be?
Edit, from my article:
> Even if we all switched to EVs overnight, we estimate demand would only increase by around 10%. So we’d still be using less power as a nation than we did in 2002, and this is well within the range the grid can capably handle.
So let’s say for 25% of people converting we would have a 2.5% increase in demand on a daily basis. If we spread that over a 6 hour period then we then get back to 10% uptick during that 6 hour period.
Here is the total energy production in the UK over a week: https://electricityproduction.uk/total/?t=7d https://electricityproduction.uk/total/?t=7d
I can see that a 10% daily average (4 Gigawatt) bump at night would still put us much lower than daytime, so demand would still be considered low.
Not sure of all my maths and assumptions, happy to hear other views.