Huge if we can seize micro-macro arbitrage opportunities to install a ton of resources. Gonna be a big “mid-transition” sort of process all the way through. I for one am ready to watch the “did we worry too much about decarb, let’s consolidate and optimize the system” politics of my retirement 🤞🏽.

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Given sclerotic North American T&D systems, I’m not sure can clean electrify without some sort of hybridized “microgrid pasted on the macrogrid system”, eg dispatchable batteries to max use of existing transmission.

We did a report on VPPs run / owned by a local muni, co-op, GB. Needs a 2.0 for changes in markets + policy since last hear. Plus updating the lit review. publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...

It sounds crazy high tech, but if plug & play, fully open source, and owned perhaps by a local elec coop could be incredibly useful at the village level.

There’s some really interesting work to be done where every reasonable sized & connected battery is modelled as an arbitraging buying and selling agent, that learns its local demand profile and availability of supply. Then you’ve got markets forming organically at the smallest through largest scales

The logic has always been there where self gen was possible, eg with industrial cogen. Now farms, factories, buildings can do it with with solar, and batteries complete the argument for “micro markets” with their own marginal supply cost & demand, & Q of when and if to buy from or sell to the grid.

Reflecting, we built the historic system as a monolithic grid with large generators sending power down brachiating AC lines because that made sense at the time. What if that's not sensible anymore? What if it could be better done hybridized with DC & AC semi-islands, batteries & connectors? 🤷

I'm hoping I can import a BYD Dolphin in parts and call it an electric lawnmower.

COP varies with climate conditions (I.e. latent heat content in air), I would guess 7.0 is ideal, and where & when? Impressive though.

This will be one of the business opportunities of the century for the entrepreneurial contractor(s) who can plan, quote, get the permits for and carry-out a step-by-step electrification retrofit.

Cannot really answer this, because the planet has its own dynamics that we don’t fully understand, and yet we’re conducting sufficiently large interventions to change those dynamics. But, sure, A.