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Re:EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage by punnerud on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:46AM (#34518812)
This already exist in Norway with the company Tibber, that have more than 400.000 users. They do just that, let you connect your EV so they adjust the charging and guarantee a lower price.

The market they can buy and sell this capacity is called an “aggregator”, and they can earn more money on this then selling just power.

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Re:EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage by mercutio2 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @11:49AM (#34520626)
This is “let a large entity suck up much of the arbitrage value, with a small fraction going to you”, and already exists in most countries.

Seems quite different from “your household is an autonomous actor and you get almost all of the arbitrage value of reducing peak consumption”, which would be a radically different system (but ignores who’s going to pay for distribution, which is getting closer and closer to being the dominant cost of the grid).

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