Utility's plan: Batteries for all

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Producing more-reliable power doesn't have to mean more power lines and plants, at least according to one Vermont utility. Green Mountain Power, which serves about 270,000 customers, wants to install "television-size batteries" in homes and businesses in an effort to shore up its grid — especially after a spate of devastating flooding hit Vermont and caused outages over the summer. The utility says "flipping the model" with batteries will be cheaper than investing large sums in traditional upgrades and storm recovery, and it can help keep costs down for customers, too.

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Green Mountain Power, which serves about 270,000 customers, wants to install "television-size batteries" in homes and businesses in an effort to shore up its grid

I installed homes batteries with my solar system and haven’t had a powercut for over 5 years.

 

In the UK companies like Octopus Energy have special rates for consumers with batteries  - you don’t even need to have solar. You buy electricity when it is cheap to charge the battery and sell it back at a profit at times of peak demand helping to flatten the demand curve reducing the need for expensive gas peaker plants.