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UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours:
The United Kingdom plans to pass legislation that will see EV home and workplace chargers being switched off at peak times to avoid blackouts.
Announced by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the proposed law stipulates that electric car chargers installed at home or at the workplace may not function for up to nine hours a day to avoid overloading the national electricity grid.
As of May 30, 2022, new home and workplace chargers being installed must be "smart" chargers connected to the internet and able to employ pre-sets limiting their ability to function from 8 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 10 pm. However, users of home chargers will be able to override the pre-sets should they need to, although it's not clear how often they will be able to do that.
[...] In addition to the nine hours a day of downtime, authorities will be able to impose a "randomized delay" of 30 minutes on individual chargers in certain areas to prevent grid spikes at other times.
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:51PM (1 child)
This just makes it look less like leading the talks by example and more like Greta nailed it; "Green Economy. Blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah.”. Why am I not surprised? I guess I could look into getting some batteries and going off-grid completely, excess capacity for the greater good be damned, or perhaps Grant and Boris would prefer it if I just got another PHEV and cut back the scale of the generating capacity accordingly?
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @08:20PM
renewable energy is 95% solved from a technical standpoint.
i believe the problem is that we (as modern society) are addicted to fossile fuel.
futhermore fossile fuels are raw materials and energy source. for the first case, fossile fuels will remain required (example: plastic for electrical insulation).
the problem is secondary and tertiary economics from being reliant on fossile fuels for ENERGY!
is mean, thinks like dividents, future dividends as collateral, options, future contracts, bonds and all the other "fictional inventions" that are tied to fossile fuel sourced energy.
THIS gargantuan financial machinary is the reason for the slow energy transistion.
untangling this cabudel of gears and pullies and levers is difficult 'cause it's what's running the modern-today age to the tune of 98 million barrels a day!
the missing 5% is attributed to a new life-style we have to be willing to learn and get used to...
ah, also, beware the "oil-driven-mentality" unleashed on the climate problem, that is, the climate problem is "solved" by burning more fossile, example: energy from coal burning is used to manufacture "green" solarpanels and the energy harvested from these is used to drive carbon-oxygen into the ground...
as for the cars, buy half as big a e-car, spend the other half on a battery, go off grid and THINK how your investment is going to help the creation of more e-cars; not with MONEY but with ENERGY and MATERIALS. the e-car should not be used to further drive the "consumer" economy (reliant on fossile fuel)?
money, it is said, is fiat and not backed by anything but maybe TODAY it is backed so that you can exchange it for gold, the BLACK liquid type?
investing in renewables has to be the direct kind, not with money in your hands but thru delivery of YOUR energy (and maybe materials if you have 'em) to the people and factories making the real tangible things that enable renewable energy!
and no we see, you and me have nothing, no own energy source and materials that we buy and discard. we can't really invest in renewable unless it is thru money that is based on the fossile fueled machination discribed above :(
note: i have 1 kw of grid-tied solar. that's it. maybe some of it went into this post....