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A heat wave hit New England's grid. Clean energy saved the day. (www.canarymedia.com)
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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

On June 24, behind-the-meter solar made up as much as 22% of the power being used in New England at any given time, according to the Acadia Center. At 3:40 p.m., total demand peaked at 28.5 GW, of which 4.4 GW was met by solar installed by homeowners, businesses, and other institutions.

Nice!

Today, in the mid 80s and partly cloudy, our solar has been covering and sometimes exceeding the cooling load as well as charging the EV slowly. A residential battery would definitely help even things out (covering nighttime load as well), but there's no time-of-use rates or battery program like Vermont's where I am so it's not quite worth it.

24hr power outage and generation