What your seeing is people recognizing that the technology you're talking about is not ready for prime time.
If your plan involves you or anyone else controling my thermostat, then no. Don't you mean " be grateful the feds allow me to use an air conditioner"?
There's a name for it when government and big industry collude to produce what the government thinks the folks should have. Anyone care to take a stab at it? Originally Posted by Ducbutter
Did you even read the article. What it says is that with calls for conservation at the correct times, and extra battery capacity they were able to keep enough supply to meet demand. Which is what managing an electricity grid is all about. Keeping things even.
In the near future California plans on installing an extra 38 gigawatts of energy storage by 2045. Why, to capture generated power normally unused on temperate days and store it for later use during peak demand. Rather than keep that energy storage in the form or natural gas or oil or coal, some kind of battery or kinetic storage is the preferred solution of the future.
Will there be issues moving to clean energy and storage, Of course there will be. But it's still better than polluting the planet with excess carbon dioxide, and green house gasses.
Technology has made great strides in the last decade on different kinds of battery and clean storage. Rather than bitch about it why not embrace the future it embodies. It's coming whether you like it or not. It's not a Republican or a Democrat issue. It's merely capitalism at work.
