All electric vehicles?
I guess electrically powered vehicles are coming but seems to me they are presently only a rich person's toy with present technology. By that I mean, they're only good for around town and short trips ...
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It is very cold in New York City and North Jersey today. Yesterday, a fire/explosion cut one of the major (Texas Eastern) pipelines in Ohio. Are they freezing, did it make the major networks, nope. The gas has been rerouted, and storage in eastern PA are making up the difference. The great mobs don't even know anything happened, just talked to my SIL in North Jersey! The plans worked again (2 people injured in OH) I last worked on this over 30 years ago, but the people today as just as smart or better than me.
We take you now to So Cal of the future, the new laws on rooftop solar, which took effect this year are generating a lot of power. However, we have a big fire and the smoke has cut rooftop generation by 75%. The sun is going down and unlike a normal day the air conditioners keep running, the people receive an evacuation warning and they all go to the garage and flip the charge on by manual so the cars are ready to go. We have a brand new peak in electric usage! If you use solar, since it is not stored locally, but is grid tied, no changes happen in transmission. In fact EV's mean an increase in powerlines, solar does not help at all, because we still need the deliverability (that word again) for the worst case, not normal. Although it does, on a normal day (only) decrease the central plant generation load.
We take you now to So Cal of the future, the new laws on rooftop solar, which took effect this year are generating a lot of power. However, we have a big fire and the smoke has cut rooftop generation by 75%. The sun is going down and unlike a normal day the air conditioners keep running, the people receive an evacuation warning and they all go to the garage and flip the charge on by manual so the cars are ready to go. We have a brand new peak in electric usage! If you use solar, since it is not stored locally, but is grid tied, no changes happen in transmission. In fact EV's mean an increase in powerlines, solar does not help at all, because we still need the deliverability (that word again) for the worst case, not normal. Although it does, on a normal day (only) decrease the central plant generation load.
