2024 OFFICIAL Weather and road conditions MEGA THREAD

[suntan]

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Kind of ironic because EVs would actually be the answer to this if they supported V2G (vehicle to grid). Right now market rate is a buck per kWh, could make easy money reselling power to the grid now just to recharge overnight when it drops to normal.

Wouldn't you have to leave your vehicle plugged in the next day then? And then if it's cold again?

[vengie]

The last thing I'd want to do is use my $30,000 battery system that I've paid for as grid storage that can be pulled off when needed.

[pheoxs]

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Wouldn't you have to leave your vehicle plugged in the next day then? And then if it's cold again?

This shortage will only last until 10 or 11pm at most. Power consumption drops off heavily when people go to bed. No reason you couldn’t recharge after 2 or 3am and still be ‘full’ by the time you go to drive.

[killramos]

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The last thing I'd want to do is use my $30,000 battery system that I've paid for as grid storage that can be pulled off when needed.

YOUR $30,000?

That is very unpatriotic comrade

[jutes]

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The last thing I'd want to do is use my $30,000 battery system that I've paid for as grid storage that can be pulled off when needed.

Every KW matters comrade.

[TomcoPDR]

This one made me chuckled

[ExtraSlow]

$1/kwh, and maybe you could sell ~30kwh, so that's a sweet $30, minus whatever it cost you to charge it earlier in the day.

Not nothing, but in what feels like an emergency situation, it might not be compelling.

[suntan]

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This shortage will only last until 10 or 11pm at most. Power consumption drops off heavily when people go to bed. No reason you couldn’t recharge after 2 or 3am and still be ‘full’ by the time you go to drive.

Not really seeing it, you'd only have a few vehicles plugged in at any given time and I'd presume there's some sort of limiter where the car would refuse to provide power as well.

That would also just make it so that even fewer people would keep it plugged in during cold weather, for fear that they'd be the unlucky ones.

[rage2]

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This one made me chuckled

I looked up a 40 amp vibrator. Found one with 2 chicks demoing it.



7’ shaft.

[Shlade]

My AC stresses the grid system in the summer. My furnace and lights in winter. But the government wants net zero by 2035 and us in electric vehicles. Gotcha.

[mr2mike]

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I looked up a 40 amp vibrator. Found one with 2 chicks demoing it.



7’ shaft.

Fist attachment is extra.

[suntan]

Is it over? Can I use my vibrators again?

[Team_Mclaren]

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Kind of ironic because EVs would actually be the answer to this if they supported V2G (vehicle to grid). Right now market rate is a buck per kWh, could make easy money reselling power to the grid now just to recharge overnight when it drops to normal.

you drank way too much EV kool-aid bra

[ExtraSlow]

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Is it over? Can I use my vibrators again?

Was over before 9pm.

[Tik-Tok]

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you drank way too much EV kool-aid bra

He's not wrong. I for one loathe the idea of "the grid" buying my gasoline for $1/litre only to sell it back to me a few hours later at $1.30/litre.

[haggis88]

Noticed we hit 11.9GW generation at one point when I was looking last night

Whole bunch of NG units that barely run were on at full throttle last night

Keep it up comrades, I need some more work when they inevitably stall out or blow up due to remote operators just sendin' 'er and giving zero fucks

[killramos]

5A prices rn



Yum

[ExtraSlow]

Funny, a beyonder went me a similar graph about spot prices.

[killramos]

I’m actually a bit surprised it’s that dramatic, our intramarket usage is peanuts compared to what we export.

Wonder if there are material freezeoffs driving this right now, I’m not as close to the gas market as I used to be, but storage was pretty damn full coming into all this.

[ExtraSlow]

There's probably a natural gas pricing mega thread or something but I'm too lazy to find it.

I'm interested in the AGA "heating degree days monthly report" that will be released about the 8th day of Feb. USA usage is much more meaningful to storage levels and prices than local Alberta.

But as I always say, every little bit helps. LNG exports, new NG electricity plants, cold snaps in Chicago, it all helps.