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Originally Posted by aerohead
Everyone interviewed had a smile on their face, so I presume that its a win-win for all parties.
And evidently, with time-of-use, off-peak sales to EV owners now, profits to the utilities are so high that, the public utilities commissions are requiring the providers lower prices per kW/h, and without pushback.
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I don't see how profits are so high. Most utilities have the perverse incentive to make electricity as expensive as possible, because their profits are capped as a percentage of cost.
In other words, utilities wouldn't want peak demand to be covered by V2G because that electricity would be so cheap.
Anecdotally, my natural gas provider is jumping all over "renewable" gas... because it's more expensive. They have people calling me to discuss renewable gas, and my only question is how that will lower my bill, and I get silence.
A utility should only be thinking about how to safely and reliably provide the cheapest cost to their customers. If they aren't working on one of those 3 aspects, they are off the rails.