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At a certain point shouldn't things get good enough you don't really need a traditional power grid?
by Glyptodon 2y ago
At a certain point shouldn't things get good enough you don't really need a traditional power grid?
- wongarsu 2y agoResidential power demands are highest in the morning and in the evening. That's when people shower, cook, and are generally around using power. Solar peaks at noon. Maybe when battery prices come down even more. But the cost of grid-level storage are also falling, and wind pretty much only works at grid scale. Grids have to change but won't become obsolete anytime soon.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoThat usage pattern will be quite different in places with cold winters when most people there are using electric-powered heat pumps (which is "the plan").
- benlivengood 2y agoGrids are pretty much the best solution available because any kind of good/service that can be transported at close to light-speed benefits tremendously from ubiquitous connectivity. Smarter grids are an even better solution; batteries backing local high-variance demand combined with rapidly negotiated requests for transmission power to meet expected future demand (and then stored in the batteries) reduces (electrical) inefficiency to a minimum.