"One could stay connected to the grid, never adding power to the grid, but only drawing power in the off chance that the home storage runs short?"
...and/or do what Tesla is planning ie to sell the stored power to the utility in the event of a brownout, of course. MW On 17 Apr 2014, at 04:11, rayfellow wrote: > "Option 2, however, is where it gets interesting. A Nissan LEAF battery with > 80% of its capacity remaining still can hold about 19 kWh; .... > > Residential applications are what worry utility companies, though. As > reported by Forbes in a similar article, the average US household uses 29.7 > kWh per day; a house wishing to go off the grid could reasonably do so in > much of the country with solar panels, some efficiency measures, and a > battery pack made with the modules of one and a half LEAF batteries." > > I for one am ready to have my own 'power company'. What's to keep > individuals from having their own home internal power supply (solar panels) > and storage system (old Leaf batteries). One could stay connected to the > grid, never adding power to the grid, but only drawing power in the off > chance that the home storage runs short? > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
