2. V2H. He mentioned it as something that may be coming but an EV battery is the biggest battery anyone if ever going to own. And most of the time it's just sitting there.
3. Balcony solar. It's success indicates that most folks don't want or need a huge $20k to $30k roof array. Any kind of offset is enough. Especially if it's paired with a battery. But a balcony solar panel combined with V2H could make a huge difference to offset peak rates.
A few concerns. At the beginning the company may be interoperable with other systems, especially if they are pre-existing. However, over time the profit driven company will tend to lock different parts together to increase market share - make it so that it's cheaper if you get every home smart device from one company. Similar to how google do things or Apple. So you end up with a household having one company that controls everything electrical in their home and collects all household electrical data. Then the company will then tend to enshitify the service once they have that lock in. The household has too much to lose by switching any one component or refusing any data access out so will keep with that one company and keep giving that company access to their data. The neighbour might have a different company but over time the tendency will be towards a few very large companies having a huge amount of market power over all household smart devices, and a huge amount of data about the intricacies of every day life in those households, which they can use to manipulate people in many ways, not all of them electrical. Regulation is needed to force companies not to lock things together in this way. Also data ownership and control is key to reducing the manipulation power of companies. It would be good to see a volts episode on homeassistant.io as an alternative approach.
Wow! What a great interview on battery, inverter, and home power generation for the home! I just sent a note to our solar installer in Northern Michigan to see if he knows about all this, and if our 13-year-old rooftop solar & battery system might need a modernization upgrade. It is such great news to hear about all this creative new innovation taking place despite the Trump Administration's effort to turn back the clean energy revolution. Thank you David and Volts.
Some things I would like to have heard discussed:
1. Sodium chemistry
2. V2H. He mentioned it as something that may be coming but an EV battery is the biggest battery anyone if ever going to own. And most of the time it's just sitting there.
3. Balcony solar. It's success indicates that most folks don't want or need a huge $20k to $30k roof array. Any kind of offset is enough. Especially if it's paired with a battery. But a balcony solar panel combined with V2H could make a huge difference to offset peak rates.
A few concerns. At the beginning the company may be interoperable with other systems, especially if they are pre-existing. However, over time the profit driven company will tend to lock different parts together to increase market share - make it so that it's cheaper if you get every home smart device from one company. Similar to how google do things or Apple. So you end up with a household having one company that controls everything electrical in their home and collects all household electrical data. Then the company will then tend to enshitify the service once they have that lock in. The household has too much to lose by switching any one component or refusing any data access out so will keep with that one company and keep giving that company access to their data. The neighbour might have a different company but over time the tendency will be towards a few very large companies having a huge amount of market power over all household smart devices, and a huge amount of data about the intricacies of every day life in those households, which they can use to manipulate people in many ways, not all of them electrical. Regulation is needed to force companies not to lock things together in this way. Also data ownership and control is key to reducing the manipulation power of companies. It would be good to see a volts episode on homeassistant.io as an alternative approach.
Wow! What a great interview on battery, inverter, and home power generation for the home! I just sent a note to our solar installer in Northern Michigan to see if he knows about all this, and if our 13-year-old rooftop solar & battery system might need a modernization upgrade. It is such great news to hear about all this creative new innovation taking place despite the Trump Administration's effort to turn back the clean energy revolution. Thank you David and Volts.