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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

389 points · 304 comments · devonnull

  1. dzhiurgis · · focus · HN ↗
    Why would you put it in peoples homes and not at substations/next to residential transformers?
    1. entech · · focus · HN ↗
      That is exactly right! Put the batteries where the cost of strain is the highest.

      My belief is that this is ideologically/politically motivated. If you put the batteries next to network equipment it will not have the same immediate saving effect/user experience as the battery at home.

      Battery at home gets a response of someone being happy about getting apiece of hardware, saving money and being renewable!

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