Maybe Love

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Maybe Love

Today's post honours "Maybe Love" by Weyes Blood ('Wise Blood'), whose "Cardamom" I got completely obsessed with in the summer, and even listened to again last night as I walked along the dark beach in Worthing.

Being Brave

I've been revising a lot lately, but for today I'd like to crack on and make just a tiny bit of progress with this article. 
Revising is good and all, but you can do too much of it as well. This is something I learned especially as a software engineer; I sometimes just needed to move on with the new thing and not to keep on going over all the old stuff as well. Over and over, again and again.

Challenges to the Grid

In a way this is stuff that I all know but it is good and it is helpful for me to go over it anyway.

In the article "Energize and Revolutionize: Software sparkes changes in the Power sector", Cecilia Manduca writes that our grid is "facing its biggest existential challenge yet. (I mean, every article I've read to date has confirmed that). She also mentions this point that I well know, but I can't get over it, I can't mention it enough - the predicted 3x rise in electricity consumption over the next 10 years.

Specifically, she says: "the forecasted 3x increase in electricity consumption at a domestic level, combined with the widespread rise of DERs is poised to put another strain on our 19th century grids." She also says that, in the mix, is: "the growth in large-scale battery storage, the first non-energy generating grid player." So in conclusion, what we can take from this, is that the three biggest things causing pressure to the grid, or at least 3 of them, are
  • The three-fold rise in electricity consumption that we are due to see over the next 10 years, due to the growing usage of electrical appliances such as EVs and Heat Pumps, and gas being on the way out.
  • The rapid increase of DERs
  • And the growth in large-scale storage batteries, which are brand new players in the grid, and which are going to change the way we store electricity and power our homes and our businesses. 
What a time to be working in renewable energy. 

A house with solar panels on its roof.

Above is the photo of my friend's hose in Ireland, lovely stuff eh?

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