Re:Solar and Wind to Top Coal Power in US for First Time in ...
by cogman10 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:34AM
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To your 7. While I like it personally, it'd be more efficient if power companies put batteries at substations to absorb excess customer production. That'd have all the benefits of a virtual power plant plus the ability for the power company to schedule disconnects that don't impact customers. They also don't have to deal with lost capacity because a customer decides to disconnect before a storm (or whatever reason). It makes capacity planning easier.
7. Set up virtual power plant policies, give property owners incentives to install storage for grid stabilization, this will enable demand shifting and reduce the need for distribution grid upgrades and enable more distributed energy sources to be installed at the neighborhood level.
8. Inter-regional transmission line upgrades. Build out transmission lines between regions. The sun may not always be shining, and the wind may not always blow. But the sun will always be shining somewhere and the wind will be blowing somewhere. This will let regions support each other.
9. Pass enabling legislation/regulation for community choice aggregation in all states. This will speed up adoption of renewables by leveraging climate action plans at the municipal level to procure more renewables and lead to the early retirement of fossil generation facilities.