Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] B2G TECHNOLOGY: IS THAR GOLD IN THEM THAR HULLS?

 

On 03/03/10 00:20, Mike wrote:

Pat:
 
I agree the devil will be in the details and how much control of the B2G technology those of us who own the storage facilities (batteries) will have. Selling the excess capacity our wind generators and solar panels will be a no brainer. But, to be able to limit the amount of charge the utility companies will be able to draw from our battery banks I think will be important too.
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 Electric grid management and balancing is a black art already. The US has already seen the effects of a grid becoming unstable.

 'Microgeneration' makes the grid problem much more complex. Now people are suggesting using the batteries of electric vehicles as load leveling devices as well. It's quite possible that this idea simply will be too complex to manage.

 A great idea to even out your own load - say using your electric car to chop the top of your own peak load, but the utility being able to use that storage as well, not so sure about that one. Apparently the grid managers already hate the idea of microgeneration messing up their demand/supply models.

 Currently the grid experiences a spike in demand when every one gets home turns on the TV, heaters/air con and starts cooking. Adding charging electric cars to the mix must be worrying the grid engineers - more peak load as every one will be plugging their cars in at this peak load period as well.





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