Reply to post: Re: Clean up

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Clean up

"Peak usually only lasts for a few hours each day"

When you eliminate oil/gas heating systems (2025 onwards), expand your EV fleet and start "encouraging" industrial processes to decarbonise, "Peak" ends up being a relic of the past

V2G is hideously expensive to implement in practice and vehicle owners expect to be compensated for use of their batteries.

The same amount of money builds very large stationary power reserve systems without needing to worry about hundreds of thousands of individual sources and such a system is vastly more flexible in terms of grid-stabilisation (eliminating OGT peaking plants, providing frequency stabilisation and numerous other grid-scale facilities that a bunch of 7-21kW sources simply can't do

In other words: V2G is obsolete already. It's being pushed by those who don't understand that but have the ability to compel spending "other people's money" on a system which won't actually result in a public benefit

V2G might be of use to allow YOUR house to turn itself into an island in the event of a blackout, but that's going to need more control logic as virtually all these systems require the presence of grid power (and a frequency reference) to run in the first place

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