Q. wrote:Armchair expert wrote:Q. wrote:Trader wrote:[quote="Q."]Here's the thing, as car batteries improve to last between 5,000 and more than 10,000 cycles (we will be at +10,000 by 2030), we won't even need to install home batteries. The car will act as the source of power at night - charge during the day using solar, then use it to power the home at night. Essentially, rapid uptake of EV will stabilise the grid.
How does the car charge during the day when the solar panels are on the roof of my home and the car is in the work carpark?
The work carpark will have charging points that run on solar.
What if the carpark is underground
Does the building have a roof?
You also can't see the forest for the trees. In South Australia at least, we are basically at a point where for most of the day the grid itself is powered by renewables. So an EV plugged into the grid during the day is charged using renewable energy, regardless of whether that charging point itself is running directly off solar.[/quote]That in itself provides another issue as we that Aemo aren't ready for.
Regardless the amount of domestic solar now well surpasses what the Northern Power station provided, my argument and issue about this is that this was needed back in 2016 to avoid a nasty price spike.
Also on this the average cost of generation in SA has fallen 40% in the last year and about 42 - 43% in the last 2 from when we had a peak.
Your retailer has passed on 6% of that. So when we all get pissy about electricity prices, you know where to go.