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kleinbl00 · 609 days ago · link · · parent · post: Californians asked to cut power use as extreme heat approaches
It's long been foretold that the biggest update to the grid that nobody saw coming 40 years ago will be distributed energy storage. Right now, it's envisioned that the car in the garage is the energy sink; for people of means, another battery ends up being security and convenience. A Model S has a 100KW battery pack. That's $30k retail right now. Throw some subsidies and incentives at that and it's around the cost of an HVAC system. It also happens to be more power than this house can consume in 5 days. Besides which, California has had time-of-use pricing for nearly a decade and plenty of other states are following. You can use your fancy SUV whenever you want, you just pay more to charge it up during the day.