Has anyone done the what-if on microgrid infrastructure for Texas? Seems like consumer electricity free markets could behave reasonably even under crisis-constrained supply if you added some of those micro grid resilience features I keep hearing about.
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1. BTM (behind the meter battery like Tesla powerwall)
2. Better price prediction
3. Opt-in load shedding
4. Local generator capacity with net-metering (solar, fuel)
I’m guessing for < 10k/home you could add enough to both protect against 1-2 day outages and avoid big bills
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We’re going to see more failures of state capacity as climate-related fragilities eat through infrastructure, not less. So screaming for more regulation will be futile.
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A single PowerWall costs ~$10K. Decent solar costs maybe $12K (maybe down to $9K with tax incentives).
This stuff is still expensive :-(
A Sense monitor (tells where YOU are using electricity) is ~$350+installation, but still requires a lot of customer input to be valuable.
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Experiments are happening in places like South Australia (high renewable energy on a lightly connected grid), like sharing home batteries across the community.


