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It's often said that probably the biggest challenge with switching over all the cars and heating to renewables here in Germany, is going to be the transport of so much electricity to all the homes.
That's what I also really like about the balkonkraftwerk, that it produces electricity right where it's used.
I agree. I often discuss this with friends and the argument of "our electricity network cant supply all that power" (which is true) is one i often counter with adding more solar panels, even to apartments.
Where but not necessarily when it’s needed. Still it’s good to connect to grid through a wall plug, without expensive or permanent equipment.
There are now small scale storage systems available to flatten the curve of production and increasenlocal consumption.
The idea for the when-part is that people will have electric cars at home, which can double as a big battery, or as the other guy already said, you can buy dedicated storage, too.
You could also hook these storages up to the grid, and then have an algorithm decide to sell to the grid when electricity is expensive, or to charge from the grid while electricity is cheap, possibly even taking the weather forecast into account.
Definitely still lots of details to figure out, but I expect things to head that way...