Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study

Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by Retric on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:28PM (#32954042)

What are are you using that much power for? I can’t think of much that uses that much per that you can shift to time of day pricing, perhaps pottery kilns?

Even 2MWh per month is enough to drive 2 EV’s around 50,000 miles per year each. If you’re very flexible with time of day rooftop solar could probably save you quite a bit.

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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by lostmsu on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:41PM (#32954193)

Just having my 4x3090 constantly running deep learning experiments consumes 1MWh/month. And that's GPUs only.

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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by Retric on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:48PM (#32954271)

Except constantly running can’t benefit from time of day pricing. Essentially it needs to be some 15kWh load that only needs to run for 6 hours per day.

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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by marcosdumay on Friday September 23, 2022 @01:20PM (#32954637)

If the price changes are large enough, you can just buy an extra board and have them at the best half of the time.

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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by Retric on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:12PM (#32955879)

I think you would be better off buying a 2 Tesla power wall to load shift the demand vs 4x as much computer equipment that’s quickly outdated.

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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by AlexandrB on Friday September 23, 2022 @01:28PM (#32954746)

Bitcoin miners?

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