California Ban On Gas Powered Cars

Slm864 said:
According to what I just looked up, California has the 7th highest kWh rate in the country. So Iā€™m sure those residents there will be thrilled to charge their vehicles haha. Iā€™m also sure that kWh cost will go down with the increased demand in electric moving forward. ;)

Boston is even higher than California. I wouldnā€™t want to toast my bagel in Boston at that rate let alone charge my car.
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that's the awesome thing about electric cars. The idea being that you charge your car during non peak hours, usually over night, drive it to work and back, and then plug in powering your peak power needs around 6 pm, then rinse and repeat every day.

Basically you get a way to peak shave your residential load at night as a side benefit.
And if utilities have smart metering you have the ability to change the cost of electricity depending on time of day and demand which would allow additional savings by using battery at peak price, and charging it during the low price at night.

As far as producing that power, nuke is honestly the best way to go, but people have such a negative view of nuclear that new plants are difficult to justify building when natural gas is so cheap and plentiful, also much lower regulations when compared to nuclear.
 
SD_Prairie_Goat said:
that's the awesome thing about electric cars. The idea being that you charge your car during non peak hours, usually over night, drive it to work and back, and then plug in powering your peak power needs around 6 pm, then rinse and repeat every day.

Basically you get a way to peak shave your residential load at night as a side benefit.
And if utilities have smart metering you have the ability to change the cost of electricity depending on time of day and demand which would allow additional savings by using battery at peak price, and charging it during the low price at night.

As far as producing that power, nuke is honestly the best way to go, but people have such a negative view of nuclear that new plants are difficult to justify building when natural gas is so cheap and plentiful, also much lower regulations when compared to nuclear.
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Lol man Denver and Boston must be the boonies, Iā€™ve never even heard of smart metering.
 
wllm1313 said:
Lol man Denver and Boston must be the boonies, Iā€™ve never even heard of smart metering.
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I'd say very few utilities are doing it right now. It's the way the industry is moving toward. Not many are doing it because the meters cost more and I'm not certain the public can handle variable pricing yet. As the grid ages, even more, and is strained further I have a feeling we'll start to see it more as a way to avoid costly upgrades to the grid including new generation.

Just my prediction. Here is SD we have all dumb metering as well haha
 
Mtnhunter1 said:
NR,,,,question, what electric saw did you use? I have been looking hard at the Milwaukee battery powered saw but have heard mixed reviews. Figured that a battery powered saw would be the cat's meow for a week or two in the wall tent.
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I have a Milwaukee pole saw and my brother has the standard chain saw. No complaints on either tool. The battery life is good and no problem cutting up campwood.
 
So......the state of California has been having plenty of issues keeping electricity to homes in far north California. I think the MIL was without electricity for 10 days, this go around. It sounds genius to me.

Another opportunity for PG&E I guess.
 
Big Slick said:
So......the state of California has been having plenty of issues keeping electricity to homes in far north California. I think the MIL was without electricity for 10 days, this go around. It sounds genius to me.

Another opportunity for PG&E I guess.
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That's from an aging system that had been neglected, not necessarily from power use.
 
Big Slick said:
Iā€™m pretty sure the outage was due to fire danger. I guess when a whole city burns to the ground, a energy provider may panic.
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I think more of the NorCal outages were planned due to fire danger, but SoCal struggled this summer with brown outs.
 
Big Slick said:
Iā€™m pretty sure the outage was due to fire danger. I guess when a whole city burns to the ground, a energy provider may panic.
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Agreed, but it's in large part to an aging system that has poor protection for fires and pole's and lines that are more prone to accidents.

Without going deep into the weeds, modern designs are able to detect not only where a fault occurs, but also the cause. How that comes in handy is being able to say we probably just started a fire at mile 54 of this line.

Old systems won't even know there's a fault until the fire is going strong and won't have a clue the cause or location.
 
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