• ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone
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      7 months ago

      That and incentivise smart devices like water heaters that run when power is cheap, which is effectively a rudimentary battery

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        7 months ago

        If all grids did was put high resolution pricing data on the wire we could make those decisions for ourselves.

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          It still takes upfront investment. that’s easy if you’re wealthy but a lot harder if you’re pay check to pay check + there’s no reason landlords would do it. part of it is the high resolution pricing data, but we need more than just that

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      Problem is that storing electric energy at a large scale is really difficult, with lots of engineering and research effort going into finding solutions. Investment into storage is good, but it’s still an area of active research how to even do it.