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0 pointsjoha42701y ago0 comments

Most of the time, the grid is reliable. How much investment do we actually want to prevent a few hours of downtime once in a blue moon?

And even if we do want to invest in large amount of grid storage (which we would need to anyway, if we want to transition to renewables), I'm not sure pushing this down to the individual house is sensible. Its a great way to limit economies of scale and make maintenance/inspection harder.

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pjc501y ago

Mandating battery storage is nonsense. Making the regulatory system better for it is not, though; it would be good to make it possible for consumer battery systems to do "islanding" properly so they can be true backups.

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chii1y ago

> I'm not sure pushing this down to the individual house is sensible.

why not? Having distributed buffers ought to make the system more resilient in most cases wont it? Not to mention that these home level batteries can be used to smooth out power usage and lower peak loads.

In fact, having an EV car act as this same battery would be an even more efficient use of resources.

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