A few days ago I read about an electricity utility and a blockchain company coming together to offer companies guaranteed ‘on the grid’ green electricity. The utility says customers have expressed ‘tracebility’ of the electricity was of value
Wes Herche, a real smart guy out in Arizona chimed in:
Spatial and temporal specificity will likely be the new high bar for corporates and others going "100% renewable"
— Wes Herche (@WesHerche) April 15, 2018
Then I saw this ‘virtual self-consumption’ term in an IEA-PVPS report talking about EV growth. Virtual self consumption (to me) means you take into consideration your electricity everywhere, and you might just be bringing a battery along to plug in when you get there.
If we all bought 100kWh electric cars – we’d have almost two full days of the US grid backup sitting in our driveways, or our offices, or the mall, etc – all places where you might be increasing the load, and maybe the accessible electricity assets as well.