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If a battery could flatten demand on a household basis, then why not just implement it on a grid basis?
by XorNot 2y ago
If a battery could flatten demand on a household basis, then why not just implement it on a grid basis?
- alias_neo 2y agoProbably for the same reason many things are the way they are; pushing the cost onto the consumer.
- stouset 2y agoSpreading out the capital costs to those better able to shoulder them.
- Thiez 2y agoSo rich people? So they can save money while people who can't afford a battery cannot. I guess it's like this for most cost-saving investments, but doing it this way hardly contributes to a more fair society.
- fennecbutt 2y agoNah just tax the rich and make it illegal for corporations based in a tax haven (like Ireland) to do business in our economies.
- nine_k 2y agoSnark notwithstanding, a thousand batteries distributed close to actual consumers give much more resilience against grid outages, like transmission lines or transformers damaged by a hurricane.