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Re:Rooftop solar power may be flooding the grid by jlebrech on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:20AM (#17254192)
home appliances should be aware of the home's solar panels somehow.

you could fill a washing machine and have it wait a few days and turn on if the solar panels are at full usage.

other things could operate at peak hours (dishwasher)

you could also pump water into a silo when it's bright outside.

Re:Rooftop solar power may be flooding the grid by t0liman on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:28AM (#17254221)
>home appliances should be aware

You mean IoT installed into wallplugs and whitegoods appliances, pool pumps, heaters, washers, heat pumps/air conditioners, hot water systems, etc.

Yeah. If there was only an IoT standard that worked to allow for usage to be monitored and devices to be switched on/off in a standard way ... sure.

There are "appliances" like HomeAssistant.io and OpenHAB and Domoticz out there to micro-manage these peripheral home devices and monitor consumption/excess/PV generation, and rulesets that can trigger responses and excess/egress of energy,

but it's too complex for the Inverter/Solar managers to take care of usually.

Re:Rooftop solar power may be flooding the grid by jlebrech on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:10AM (#17254394)
it's better to spend the energy directly than to sell it cheap now and buy it expensive later.
Re:Rooftop solar power may be flooding the grid by usrusr on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:50AM (#17254736)
As long as feed-in tariffs are artificially high (e.g. anything not noticeably below 1:1), neither xkcd:927 nor total absence of standards are what is keeping solar-aware consumption from happening.

PS: I absolutely don't want the subsidies to go away, I want them restructured into better subsidies that do not nullify other important incentives.