[bertmuthalaly]

Thinking through the implications of building batteries for homes and coordinating them for demand response programs a la Tesla Powerwall.

Distributed battery storage can help alleviate transmission bottlenecks that prevent other storage and renewables from coexisting on the current grid (building new transmission is slow, on the order of decades).

Home batteries themselves are made of commodity parts (18650 battery cells power everything from vapes to electric cars) and battery management and demand response are software problems that are amenable to good systems programming.