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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by parker_mountain on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:40PM (#32958357)
Very short sighted to think it's about "your" individual power consumption.

There are over a billion iPhones in use today. Assuming 10% of them get charged during peak times, each one shaving a watt off of its peak is 100000 kilowatts of load reduced from the energy grid.

Considering the number is probably a lot higher, and the load reduction a lot greater, my estimate is probably pretty conservative. And then further consider that this is being rolled out to iPads, Macbooks, and Apple Watches as well. It starts to add up!

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Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study by morsch on Saturday September 24, 2022 @01:56AM (#32960034)
It's still a rounding error, 100MW is 0.003% of the average global electricity generation. It's probably still worthwhile doing, especially if sets a trend for other categories of devices. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100+megawatt%2F%2828500...
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