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Feels like this is an opportunity to offer consumers attractive export rates in the evening peak so they force-discharge excess battery storage
by Angostura 3y ago
Feels like this is an opportunity to offer consumers attractive export rates in the evening peak so they force-discharge excess battery storage
- surajrmal 3y agoFor the most part, I believe most folks with solar in California don't have batteries. Those that do, don't have enough battery to last themselves through the night. The correct policy almost certainly seems like the one which incentivizes them to use their battery at night rather than the grid. As much as people hate it, NEM 3.0 provides those incentives. A policy which has folks exporting battery energy to the grid rather than using it themselves would simply be less efficient unless they have more solar+ battery than they need for themselves, which is really just rewarding rich folks who can over build. In particular rich neighbors will end up generating more power than they need, still destabilizing the grid.
- Angostura 3y agoHow it works in the UK at the moment is there are particular times when the grid knows it is going to be under severe load. Typically it gives about 6 hours warning. Consumers can then charge up their batteries from the grid and reduce load/force discharge during a (usually) 1 or 2 hour slot. It's designed to reduce the need to crank up old coal-fire power stations. I realise this a bit different to the every day duck-curve, but interesting nonetheless