| ▲ | declan_roberts a day ago |
| That's a great system. Like so many things, success comes down to implementation. In California, for example, PG&E will charge you the maximum peak demand prices while simultaneously paying other states to take electricity during the solar duck curve. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56880 |
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| ▲ | bullfightonmars a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Are you saying that they don’t let rate payers take advantage of low rates to advantage load shift? That seems counterproductive and exploitative. |
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| ▲ | gcheong a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major appliance use between these hours (dishwasher scheduled to start at midnight or manually run early in the day, washer/dryer loads run in the morning). I am home during the day which makes this easier to do though. Another solution of course would be to bank your solar generation or low rate electricity into a set of batteries that you could draw from during peak times. | |
| ▲ | amluto 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | PG&E doesn’t even give all its time-of-use ratepayers the same peak hours. The rates are nonsensical. |
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| ▲ | pseudohadamard 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Australia has that in an even more extreme form, although it's more an emu curve there. In fact the CA one isn't really a duck any more either is it? |
