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British nuclear revival to move towards energy independence (www.gov.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can definitely achieve more if you can work the supply-side as well. In theory if the smart grid were well executed then it'd be possible for consumers to modulate their heat, charging, tumble dryers etc... to provide more elasticity.

Unfortunately in a lot of places the incentives aren't that high. I don't have that option where I live, but in denver the lowest consumer rate is around 7c and the highest around 17c/kWh. It's hard to invest in new appliances to exploit that difference, but if the off-peak number were 1c then I think you'd see much more take-up of smart car chargers and people delaying when they do laundry.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So how does modulation work? Does the smart grid turn off dryers until midnight? Does the dryer have to be compatible with the drig? I've never heard of this and am interested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you can get electric car chargers where you can set rules something like "Charge whenever power is under 5c/kWh, but try to make sure i've 60% charge by 8am each weekday". Logically you could have a thermostat control AC - we've been playing with that at work because our power goes up at 1pm, so we turn down the thermostat at 12:00 and then turn it up at 1:00 so it shunts some of the cooling a little earlier.

I've never seen a tumble drier that can do it, for some reason mine has WiFi but can't do shit like that. But, yeah I imagine the rule I'd want would be : Dry this anytime in the next 4 hours, and try to spend as little as possible.