California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
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Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#2I'm sure they'll have this sorted before their forced swotxh to EV goes in to effect.
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#3I'm sure they'll have this sorted before their forced swotxh to EV goes in to effect.
Sorted:
I charged my car this afternoon (the amber alert signs have been warning about this all day), while we were (as a state) overproducing electricity, and set the thermostat on the house up 4 degrees 30 minutes ago.
Now, the solar I overbuilt to charge the car is dumping electricity on to the grid.
It'd be completely sorted, except that I can't tell the house battery (which I bought as a backup and to time-shift electricity into the car overnight) to discharge directly onto the grid. Instead, I lowered its reserve, so it will cut our demand all night (instead of peak selling for an hour or two).
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#4I'm sure they'll have this sorted before their forced swotxh to EV goes in to effect.
Sorted: I charged my car this afternoon (the amber alert signs have been warning about this all day), while we were (as a state) overproducing electricity, and set the thermostat on the house up 4 degrees 30 minutes ago. Now, the solar I overbuilt to charge the car is dumping electricity on to the grid. It'd be completely sorted, except that I can't tell the house battery (which I bought as a backup and to time-shift…
Nice of you to be able to afford solar panels and be home and have job flexibility to charge when you want. Not everyone is so privileged, so it still needs to be sorted
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#5I'm sure they'll have this sorted before their forced swotxh to EV goes in to effect.
Sorted: I charged my car this afternoon (the amber alert signs have been warning about this all day), while we were (as a state) overproducing electricity, and set the thermostat on the house up 4 degrees 30 minutes ago. Now, the solar I overbuilt to charge the car is dumping electricity on to the grid. It'd be completely sorted, except that I can't tell the house battery (which I bought as a backup and to time-shift…
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Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorted: I charged my car this afternoon (the amber alert signs have been warning about this all day), while we were (as a state) overproducing electricity, and set the thermostat on the house up 4 degrees 30 minutes ago. Now, the solar I overbuilt to charge the car is dumping electricity on to the grid. It'd be completely sorted, except that I can't tell the house battery (which I bought as a backup and to time-shift…
Nice of you to be able to afford solar panels and be home and have job flexibility to charge when you want. Not everyone is so privileged, so it still needs to be sorted
Solar panels also cannot support apartment buildings, since the ratio of roof to living space is far too low. Batteries would also be impractical to install in apartments, where space is at a premium.
One of the tradeoffs to building dense is that it makes it harder to decentralize the grid.
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#7Precisely why I have a diesel generator to deliver 40kW of power to my home. I’ll turn it on if my local utility ever imposes restrictions.
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice of you to be able to afford solar panels and be home and have job flexibility to charge when you want. Not everyone is so privileged, so it still needs to be sorted
Solar panels also cannot support apartment buildings, since the ratio of roof to living space is far too low. Batteries would also be impractical to install in apartments, where space is at a premium. One of the tradeoffs to building dense is that it makes it harder to decentralize the grid.
> Solar panels also cannot support apartment buildings
Solar windows might help there: https://www.solarwindow.com/
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#9Precisely why I have a diesel generator to deliver 40kW of power to my home. I’ll turn it on if my local utility ever imposes restrictions.
I am curious if your home happens to contains a small datacenter and/or crypto mine.
40kW is a shitload of power. You could run 10 tons of HVAC and still have over 24kW remaining to play with. Which is plenty to charge 2 Teslas at the same time using 2 different Wall Connectors at maximum output and still have a few kW margin...
Re: California Says Brace for Blackouts as Heat Wave Drives Record Power Use
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice of you to be able to afford solar panels and be home and have job flexibility to charge when you want. Not everyone is so privileged, so it still needs to be sorted
Solar panels also cannot support apartment buildings, since the ratio of roof to living space is far too low. Batteries would also be impractical to install in apartments, where space is at a premium. One of the tradeoffs to building dense is that it makes it harder to decentralize the grid.
>One of the tradeoffs to building dense is that it makes it harder to decentralize the grid.
The other side of that is that with dense living, people need dramatically less energy to begin with. Less energy for heating and cooling, and far less energy to transportation if they live close to wherever they go and can just walk there.