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The "Smart Grid"
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Anyone within range of London on February 11th might be interested in this:
Clerk Maxwell lecture | IET Prestige Lecture Series
Clerk Maxwell lecture | IET Prestige Lecture Series
PG&E smart meter communication failure – lessons for the rest of us — GreenMonk: the blog
I mainly just liked the photo.
I mainly just liked the photo.
rolosrevenge
Dr. EVS
There is a terrible inaccuracy in this article. That the grid pays $30 an hour for power from a car. It is $30 per MW of capacity. On average a single car can deliver 14 kW of capacity. Another thing is that the market for providing these services will quickly saturate at about 1% of the vehicle fleet, which will drive prices down. Additional battery wear and tear must also be taken into account. Not that I have anything against this (it is my PhD work) but it needs to be kept in perspective.
The video and slides are now available online at: Stream Connect - Player
It was not the best lecture to be honest. A couple of things that the members here will likely find controversial. Unfortunately they've left out the Q&A where a pro-hydrogen journalist got his wings clipped at the end.
OK, so this was peculiar:
I am driving my commute home tonight and it seems like every 10th vehicle on the 101 northbound is a white Ford Ranger with a utility shell and a driver wearing a khaki uniform. Traffic was heavy so I probably saw over a 100 of them which seemed surreal. They all had the back filled with boxes. I am driving a white Ford Ranger (EV) with utility shell too so I felt like I wandered into a huge heard of similar species. I notice on the door a "Wellington Energy" logo on each and every one of them, so I get home and look up the name to find this:
SmartMeter™—How the System Works
Wellington - Energy
So, I got to see first hand how $2billion+ can buy a big fleet of vehicles, installers and equipment to do a mass roll-out. Enough of a push that it had a noticeable impact on commute traffic. I hope they sort out all the billing glitches as I keep seeing stories about people saying that their bills went up significantly after getting 'upgraded' to smart metering.
I am driving my commute home tonight and it seems like every 10th vehicle on the 101 northbound is a white Ford Ranger with a utility shell and a driver wearing a khaki uniform. Traffic was heavy so I probably saw over a 100 of them which seemed surreal. They all had the back filled with boxes. I am driving a white Ford Ranger (EV) with utility shell too so I felt like I wandered into a huge heard of similar species. I notice on the door a "Wellington Energy" logo on each and every one of them, so I get home and look up the name to find this:
SmartMeter™—How the System Works
Wellington - Energy
So, I got to see first hand how $2billion+ can buy a big fleet of vehicles, installers and equipment to do a mass roll-out. Enough of a push that it had a noticeable impact on commute traffic. I hope they sort out all the billing glitches as I keep seeing stories about people saying that their bills went up significantly after getting 'upgraded' to smart metering.
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