EV Charging station & RV use
It seems that electric vehicles have a couple standards for charging stations but the ones that are free (like Volta) likely have a J1772 plug. It'd be great to just get 30A out of it. Anyone seen any...
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Or the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere.
Spinning reserve used to be a problem--but have a look at the data set from the large Tesla battery in Australia. It has saved the electric company thousands of dollars in fuel costs, virtually eliminated brown outs--and reduced the carbon foot print, too! I'd call that a win, win, win situation.
Will the batteries be in place tomorrow? Nope. But the technology has arrived already--and it saves more than it costs.
Distributed generation is still not something the electric companies are comfortable with--but that will change.
Spinning reserve used to be a problem--but have a look at the data set from the large Tesla battery in Australia. It has saved the electric company thousands of dollars in fuel costs, virtually eliminated brown outs--and reduced the carbon foot print, too! I'd call that a win, win, win situation.
Will the batteries be in place tomorrow? Nope. But the technology has arrived already--and it saves more than it costs.
Distributed generation is still not something the electric companies are comfortable with--but that will change.
Kevinwa wrote:2oldman wrote:time2roll wrote:x2.
and says nothing about dumping the results into the air we breathe.
So does the electricity just appear in the transmission lines by magic? No. There is still an energy source inputting into these lines. Wind, solar? Sure but for every MW of renewables on the grid there is a generator somewhere sitting as spinning reserve so that if the wind stops or the cloud goes over the sun we still have our modern convieniences of AC and electric cars. Sure the spinning reserve is unloaded and is usually a percentage of grid MW and not a 1:1 ratio, but it is still there burning fossil fuels. There is no free energy, but electricity off the grid has a great way of diverting the emissions to a remote location so that you can feel good about it because you are not next to the source.
