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That plant is a battery, it just uses potential and kinetic energy instead of chemical processes to store it. However, your comment, and Ufo's comment, got me t
by Sanddancer 12y ago
That plant is a battery, it just uses potential and kinetic energy instead of chemical processes to store it. However, your comment, and Ufo's comment, got me thinking and exploring, and realizing that some of the biggest users of electricity in california, like the Edmonston Pumping Plant [1], don't have forebays or the like to store water to balance out power consumption throughout the day. Power consumption really needs time-of-day based metering on it so that power consumed during peak hours is more expensive than off-peak hours, to give incentives to better even out the load.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonston_Pumping_Plant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonston_Pumping_Plant
- uptown 12y ago"Power consumption really needs time-of-day based metering on it so that power consumed during peak hours is more expensive than off-peak hours, to give incentives to better even out the load." I was under the impression that something like this was already in-place. http://news-archives.solarenergy-usa.com/2013/09/utilities-offer-special-rates-for-overnight-electric-vehicle-charging/ http://news-archives.solarenergy-usa.com/2013/09/utilities-o... Maybe it's not very widespread.
- Sanddancer 12y agoThere are bits and pieces of programs like that, but as you mentioned, they aren't very widespread, and tend to be opt-in programs.