Comment by pengaru
2 years ago
EVs might become a large part of the grid's energy storage, smoothing out these conditions of solar/wind shortages.
If ERCOT is paying bitcoin miners to not mine, I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to pay EV owners for some storage capacity and cooperative charge scheduling.
ERCOT pays even home users to use LESS electricity even during non-emergency situations.
It's way cheaper to give incentive pricing to consumers to use less energy, than it is to build an entirely new power plant.