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We are going to see a toooooon of battery storage too. Building HVAC is great, water heaters are great, because thermal storage is easy and present in all of e
by epistasis 2y ago
We are going to see a toooooon of battery storage too. Building HVAC is great, water heaters are great, because thermal storage is easy and present in all of existing infrastructure.
I hope that we can have enough vehicle chargers at workplaces that help absorb excess supply too.
It won't be long until during seasonal peaks we will have multiples of demand available to be dispatched on the grid, during the sunny hours.
I've been trying to think of applications that will benefit from this coming future for about a decade, but have not yet hit upon the sort of application where capex is low enough that this sort of big swing is easy to use.
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