It's not about infrastructure it's about trying to match demand to excess solar generation so less money needs to be spent on grid batteries or gas peaker plants. This will save money on customers power bills in the long run. The CA state is doing what offgridders often do - shifting loads to periods of peak solar generation.
California to regulate all pool pumps beginning 2025
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Except that should be accomplished by communication with VFD pumps and thermostats, rather than fixed timer.
Not all need to have that feature, but customers should be given better rates for demand response loads. Discount for consuming surplus PV, perhaps coupled with penalty for drawing during "power emergencies".
If dispatchable power generation is worth more than GT PV that delivers when the sun feels like it, dispatchable and curtailable loads deserve a discount, maybe even a payment. (Non-curtailable PV could purchase dump load capacity to qualify as curtailable.)
Not all need to have that feature, but customers should be given better rates for demand response loads. Discount for consuming surplus PV, perhaps coupled with penalty for drawing during "power emergencies".
If dispatchable power generation is worth more than GT PV that delivers when the sun feels like it, dispatchable and curtailable loads deserve a discount, maybe even a payment. (Non-curtailable PV could purchase dump load capacity to qualify as curtailable.)
HA!
and I have some land in florida cheap. They will allow no such thing. Theyll get us to reduce our use so they have to generate less then jack up the rates to make more than ever.
Do you work for the utilities or are you just incredibly gullible?
Thats very special, 3 irrelevent comparisons. (You know nobody uses VCRs any more, right?)
You dont just "plug in and forget about" a pool pump system.
You either have a professional maintain it regularly or gain the knowledge to maintain it and the rest of the pool yourself.
This has nothing to do with saving money for consumers or even fighting climate change. This has everything to do with complete govt intervention in our lives. Digital currency, smart meters, electric vehicles, mass transit. Theyll take away any free choices we have to cover up their ineptitude in lack of planning and facilitate their own and corporate profits.
Lets just forget Al Gore made $100mil off smart meters while plugging his doomsday movie.
And you got proof to back this statement up?
More unsubstantiated talk.
They'd first have to deregulate utilities like in Texas (cue collective gasp!!).
Brucey
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I'm guessing at some point they'll require some kind of support for 2 way comms between utility and your battery storage/EV charger. So on those hot days when CA power system is on the edge, they'll disable battery charging. "For the good of the community". In a truly socialist utopia the government seems to be striving for maybe even forced discharge of your storage/EV back into the grid to prop it up.
It was only last year they were requesting not to charge between 4pm and 9pm, no problem extending those windows and making them mandatory.
A history of consistently doing just that!. Where the hell have you been living, under a rock?
Dagoth Ur Does Solar
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Klaus Schwab will be lounging in his hot tub eating grade A wagyu beef while it all happens
Much quicker than you can possibly imagine
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