No need for storage? That would bring down the cost considerably!
How to balance renewable grids WITHOUT energy storage!
Balancing renewable power sources on modern electricity grids is becoming one of the greatest logistical challenges of our time. Battery storage helps, but it’s incredibly expensive. Now a team from Vermont University has taken inspiration from the internet to build a system that could save gigawatts of power each day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3woCaFSZs
If you also want reliability then local storage or local generation would still be required. I wonder how this affects the economics of Tesla’s AutoBidder? Home owners could still pump electricity into the grid. How much peaking power capacity would be required? What could hackers do to the system?
Ten years or more ago an Italian electric utility tried something along these lines using the power lines to communicate with their customers’ meters. The idea failed. BTW, they had to change their WWW domain name, genItalia.com! LOL
The Captain
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