Vermont Utility to Give Customers Batteries
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/energy-environment/green-mountain-home-batteries.html
Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries
Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines.Vermont seems to be the only state trying to deal with electricity shortage using this approach. Not sure if that’s because Vermont’s usage pattern is different, or the Vermont utility is simply more adventurous. :man-shrugging:
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Could not read the article so dont know if it was answered there......
Wondering what the required battery power for one house for 1-2 days would be?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/energy-environment/green-mountain-home-batteries.html
Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries
Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines.Vermont seems to be the only state trying to deal with electricity shortage using this approach. Not sure if that’s because Vermont’s usage pattern is different, or the Vermont utility is simply more adventurous. :man-shrugging:
@Axtremus said in Vermont Utility to Give Customers Batteries:
putting up more power lines.
Driving through the mountains the other day I was wondering about this.
I saw power lines running for miles to connect what appeared to be a small number of homes up on a steep hill.
Vermont is this way, low population density, lots of impassable hills. It must be really expensive to drag power lines to all the homes that want it. I assume the State requires the power company to do the installation without charging the consumer the full cost.
