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Originally Posted by IamIan
Most places around the country have time periods when the demand actually dips bellow the minimum base load of the utilities facilities ... some of them don't just turn on and off ... so some of them just waste fuel and throw away the base load that is beyond the current real time demand.
A smarter grid has less of that waste.
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Sure. Now imagine an EV/PHEV that is smart enough to know (maybe because you tell it?) how much you plan to drive tomorrow, and if energy is expensive, only charges enough to get you there. Or looks at forecast weather, sees it's going to be sunny tomorrow, and knows you can recharge at work with the excess PV generation.
Or how about an A/C system that has a lot of built-in thermal mass, which is chilled when there is excess generation, and used for cooling later on?
There are a whole lot of problems like this, which can be solved fairly simply with imagination and a bit of silicon.