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That's a great system. Like so many things, success comes down to implementation. In California, for example, PG&E will charge you the maximum peak demand pric
by declan_roberts 7mo ago
That's a great system. Like so many things, success comes down to implementation.
In California, for example, PG&E will charge you the maximum peak demand prices while simultaneously paying other states to take electricity during the solar duck curve.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56880 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56880
- bullfightonmars 7mo agoAre you saying that they don’t let rate payers take advantage of low rates to advantage load shift? That seems counterproductive and exploitative.
- amluto 7mo agoPG&E doesn’t even give all its time-of-use ratepayers the same peak hours. The rates are nonsensical.
- gcheong 7mo agoI have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major appliance use between these hours (dishwasher scheduled to start at midnight or manually run early in the day, washer/dryer loads run in the morning). I am home during the day which makes this easier to do though. Another solution of course would be to bank your solar generation or low rate electricity into a set of batteries that you could draw from during peak times.
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoAustralia has that in an even more extreme form, although it's more an emu curve there. In fact the CA one isn't really a duck any more either is it?