West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres

Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by Andys on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:41AM (#32262671)

Electric cars are the problem but maybe also the solution, since they can be configured to feed power back into the grid at peak times (and peak spikes is the limiting factor)

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Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by TheLoafOfBread on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:14AM (#32263255)

Well, I can already tell you that most of people are not going to participate, because it would take more cycles from already cycle limited battery.

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Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by Andys on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:59AM (#32274604)

Supplying the grid with say, 6kW for 1 hour during a peak load event, would only dent an EV battery by about 10% of total charge. And thats only needed on some days of the year. Only a tiny % of total vehicles would be needed to be connected to work together mimicking one gas peaker plant. And you can get paid to do it.

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