Tag: demand response
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Heat-pump Homes in the UK: Relief for the Grid More Than Expected
Introduction: A surprising resilience in the electricity grid As the UK moves toward stricter building standards, a wave of fully electric homes equipped with heat pumps is reshaping expectations about how much strain they place on the electricity grid. In Handsworth, Birmingham, researchers studied some of the first properties designed to meet the new energy…
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Could Vehicle-to-Grid Make Driving Almost Free in Europe by 2026?
What is Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and why it matters Vehicle-to-Grid, or V2G, is a bidirectional charging technology that lets electric vehicles not only draw power from the grid but also return stored energy back to it. When a car’s battery can act like a small energy reservoir, it helps balance supply and demand on the electricity…