Electric vehicle mandate in California
California has a mandate for electric vehicles in the future. Just read with the extreme heat PG&E will have rolling blackouts because of power shortage. Noticed this in previous years as well. Do...
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time2roll wrote:JRscooby wrote:When the sun is shining, Yes.
Doesn't Cali also mandate solar power on residences? If most houses are producing much of their own power, will that reduce the stress on the distribution system?
Crunch time happens as the sun goes down and people are running the A/C as they get home from work.
Really need more battery to shift capacity from afternoon to the evening. Last night by 9:30 all was good.
http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
Don't know about where you are, but around here, peak residential demand happens mid afternoon, when all ACs are working hard. As the sun goes down, the AC starts to cycle off for longer times.
Back in pre-industrial times, most food was consumed near where it was produced. Was no demand for a system to transport food for any distance. Stands to reason, if most power was produced near where it was consumed, would be less need to transmit the power
