Jim Jones wrote:Domestic lighting used to use 750kwh per year, with led lights it’s now 400kwh.
Repeat for energy efficient fridges freezers tv etc and there’s no shortage
Life Scientific BBC podcast last week)
EVs charge overnight when demand is low and can use what renewable wind power is available. 5p per kWh.
Coming soon are EV systems that will top up demand at peak time using energy stored overnight in the car battery . (You can set a minimum remaining charge for the car).
White heat of the technological revolution y’know
I am aware of increased efficiency in electrical use, Jim, but the ever-growing increase in demand will, I suspect, outstrip production capacity unless something radical changes very soon despite that.
I am also aware that home charging of electric vehicles takes place at periods of reduced demand, but I was thinking of those undertaking journeys and requiring charge away from home during other periods. If, as I fear, outages become more frequent in the near future it will be ICE drivers who might feel vindicated by their decision not to adopt EVs.
Let's check back in the near future and see who was right.
PW