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by ajross 1856 days ago
As battery/storage deployment improves, this will balance out. Imagine a bunch of plugged-in EVs and home batteries ready to charge on demand in the middle of the day, etc...
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South Australia has been trialing that exact idea with smart wall sockets and grid connected devices. One such device is a grid aware hot water heater. If you will need the hot water at night or in the morning it doesn't matter when you heat it initially.
In the middle of the day EVs are usually being used, or sit in company parking lot, not plugged into your home solar installation.
Right, but we're talking about evolution of infrastructure. Putting plugs at parking spots is extremely cheap, and in fact is happening already basically everywhere.
Some employers have plugs at work. Facebook has several hundred L2 charging stations at HQ, for example.