Powering the Grid with David Roberts
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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Control Demand More Than You Can Control Supply and Demand Response Aggregators
From the grid operators perspective demand was not controllable at all it was just something that happened right and it was pretty predictable like people get home from work and they cook dinner and demand spikes and then it goes down. Now supply as we mentioned is getting less controllable right because there's these more sort of variable and weather-based sources coming on and also demand is getting more controllable so there's as people get you know batteries and EVs in their homes and you're gonna eventually get an electrical panel that's able to sort of manage these things and juggle them all of a sudden you can control demand more than you could before.
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