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533 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 11h \ on: How to turn buildings into revenue producing assets with grid interactivity Construction_and_Engineering
The Tesla plan is to decentralize the grid load in this way, back-feeding from EVs, powerwalls, megapacks etc...
Works great for off/micro-grid, but the issue of scale (and getting it to pay for itself) with the legacy grid is that the legacy grids can't keep up because they weren't built for bi-directional flows.
At my past employer we had several utility-scale solar arrays (stupid for a bunch of reasons but I digress) that sat unused for years because of the backlog to get them connected up to the utility
It doesn't make sense for building construction to chase this imo, its a separation of concerns... If you need back-up FROM the grid in a reliability sense that's one thing, but otherwise megapack peaker plants are the soft-fork approach with the legacy grid that will leave it uneconomical for general purpose buildings to partake.
Fantastic point
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