Comments on: Residential solar batteries helped California’s grid with peak power during heatwave https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/09/customer-sited-solar-batteries-340-mw-peak-power-one-day-california/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Mark Juergensen https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/09/customer-sited-solar-batteries-340-mw-peak-power-one-day-california/#comment-135797 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:28:52 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=99870#comment-135797 Careful management of batteries SOC can be a great benefit to the grid. Poor system use could see batteries (grid, home or EV) show up on the grid as load at the wrong time. During the stage 3 emergency in California during the heat wave, EV’s were asked not to charge between 3-9pm.

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By: Greg R https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/09/customer-sited-solar-batteries-340-mw-peak-power-one-day-california/#comment-135664 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:14:15 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=99870#comment-135664 This doesn’t really even consider the immense power of vehicle to grid. EV’s are taking over California and the potential to meet demand peaks by selling your seldom-used-range-beyond-200 miles….is just jaw dropping. NEM 3.0 should include a provision for properly compensating car owners for supplanting peaker plants and for being super-hero protectors of the grid.

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By: Green Ridge Solar https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/09/customer-sited-solar-batteries-340-mw-peak-power-one-day-california/#comment-135638 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:22:27 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=99870#comment-135638 This is an all-too-commonly overlooked benefit of solar and battery storage in a community. With energy storage and battery backup, communities can become more resilient as a whole and better weather future climate crises. Being able to rely on solar and battery backup in a time of natural disasters and utility power outages can keep families and businesses safe and ready to recover when the time comes.

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By: Roland Obana https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/09/customer-sited-solar-batteries-340-mw-peak-power-one-day-california/#comment-135373 Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:45:42 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=99870#comment-135373 Great article !

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By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/09/customer-sited-solar-batteries-340-mw-peak-power-one-day-california/#comment-135329 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 20:37:26 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=99870#comment-135329 ” The current 900 MW of distributed batteries in California is nearly the size of Diablo Canyon’s Unit 1.”

Above there’s a useful perspective. I’m thinking folks are institutionalized into thinking utility, grid, centralized generation with dispatch over transmission power corridors. Folks have been “trained” to look at the top of the energy pyramid instead of looking at the huge base of the pyramid at all of those residential and small businesses in the retail electricity market. In California at this time a 50kWh smart ESS can serve the aggregate power supply and still have resiliency for the home when the utility fails and invokes a PSPS. Grid agnostic, it has morphed from an idealogy to a lifestyle. It’s becoming a reality, it’s not about the rare rolling blackout, it’s about PSPS and probably losing everything in one’s refrigerator and freezer many times during the year. So, how many times do you want to replace food at maybe $300 an incident? How much longer are you going to tolerate electricity that can swing from $0.19/kWh all the way up to $0.45/kWh during the 4 PM to 9 PM TOU each day?

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