Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoSoCal has a huge amount of wind and solar right now. Utility sized battery installations are going in to deal with the electricity production gaps.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even home battery solutions. We have solar panels & a Powerwall. Were part of a Virtual Power Plant along with around 1500 other Powerwall owners in the region. During peak usage in the summer all our PowerWalls feed back to the grid so that our utility provider doesn’t have to spin up expensive (and dirty) peaker plants. We get paid a premium for the power we provide during these events.
I saw articles here on Lenny just a month or two ago that Tesla successfully tested a VPP in California that consisted of 100,000 PowerWalls.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The ones they’ve installed near us are Siemens and the only reason we even know they exist is we went by often during installation. The cabinets are now hidden behind a high wall. I’m guessing they’re going in all over the place. Strange that I’ve never seen them mentioned in the news anywhere.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
While your power company is taking your power from your battery, where does your power to power your house come from?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Our house is still powered by the panels and/or battery as well. We typically use 1 to 5 kWh, and during these events the batteries are discharging up to 10 kWh. Whatever we don’t use goes to the grid. Last year we received a payout of $1450 for 45 hours worth of energy, probably in the neighborhood of 300-350 kWh.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
You get $4/kWh?! We get 2c here in Australia lol