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I am convinced the current business model of how we get our electricity is going to massively change in the next decade. It's not about bigger is better its about micro-grids an nano-grids.
Right now if you have the resources having your own nano-grid makes tons of sense an some money.
To make a nano-grid "define by me under 50 kW of energy production per second. You need a few things solar panels and/or windmill with between 5kW to 50 kW of energy production an 14 to 50 kWh of battery storage. In the future 25 kWh of storage will be minimum for storage.
Microgrids are larger an have larger batteries to handle more hours of operation. Microgrids can share power to multiple homes or provide local power an can be operated by independent paid operations or larger power companies these microgrids by definition will run larger solar arrays "already many towns use them" an range from 50 to several hundred kW of power.
These microgrids in many cases are adding upwards of 1 megawatt hours of battery storage. These systems are popping up everywhere an forcing electric providers to come up with new business models to support them.
Changing to this distributed model offers the benefit of more stable grid that has a number of redundant backups an greatly reduced chance of cascade power failure.
Southern Australia been rolling out a system like this for some time with success. At first few did not understand it but as more an more it's rolled out it's gaining popularity.
It's very software heavy as complex AI systems with redundant backups monitor each home power usage to predict how much power should be directed to the home or to the grid. It's a complex balancing act that ownly powerful computers an AI software can handle.
Point being the next decade will upend how we get safe an effective power as well as stable uninterrupted power.
2 year old video.
Right now if you have the resources having your own nano-grid makes tons of sense an some money.
To make a nano-grid "define by me under 50 kW of energy production per second. You need a few things solar panels and/or windmill with between 5kW to 50 kW of energy production an 14 to 50 kWh of battery storage. In the future 25 kWh of storage will be minimum for storage.
Microgrids are larger an have larger batteries to handle more hours of operation. Microgrids can share power to multiple homes or provide local power an can be operated by independent paid operations or larger power companies these microgrids by definition will run larger solar arrays "already many towns use them" an range from 50 to several hundred kW of power.
These microgrids in many cases are adding upwards of 1 megawatt hours of battery storage. These systems are popping up everywhere an forcing electric providers to come up with new business models to support them.
Changing to this distributed model offers the benefit of more stable grid that has a number of redundant backups an greatly reduced chance of cascade power failure.
Southern Australia been rolling out a system like this for some time with success. At first few did not understand it but as more an more it's rolled out it's gaining popularity.
It's very software heavy as complex AI systems with redundant backups monitor each home power usage to predict how much power should be directed to the home or to the grid. It's a complex balancing act that ownly powerful computers an AI software can handle.
Point being the next decade will upend how we get safe an effective power as well as stable uninterrupted power.
2 year old video.