> If off-grid is competitive, selling at peak prices is a no brainer.
So why isn't the utility managing the storage directly then? Aren't they best suited to do this???
Or is this article just saying that EV car batteries could?
So why isn't the utility managing the storage directly then? Aren't they best suited to do this???
Or is this article just saying that EV car batteries could?
They don't have a million EV batteries, purchased outside the scope of this program, sitting around idle and connected to the grid.
Their customers do.
From the abstract:-
> Participation rates fall below 10% if half of EV batteries at end-of-vehicle-life are used as stationary storage.
Half seems conservative to me. There are already lots of startups wanting your end-of-life EV battery.
But more capacity is better, and getting things online sooner is better. And in 2030 almost all the capacity is going to be in non-retired packs in their original cars.