Imagine if a service station could randomly refuse to refill your car. Welcome to yet another entry in the very lengthy ledger of why EVs are a bit shite.
Queensland risks putting the brakes on the transition to electric vehicles if a state-owned energy company is given the power to switch off home charging stations, according to the industry body.
Or, to put it another way: Queensland is making the “mistake” of telling just a bit of the truth about EVs.
Namely, that when EVs reach a critical mass, the power grid will collapse under the strain of trying to charge all the damn things when people are trying to charge them at the same time.
And also, that “renewables” are intermittent and unreliable.
In the document, Energy Queensland proposes that all vehicle chargers above 20A, and that use single-phase power that’s common to households, be required to be part of a demand-management system.
That technology would allow the energy company to take control of a home charger and switch it off or down in peak periods. It could also switch it back on or increase power if there’s a surplus of electricity.
Queensland could be the only jurisdiction in the world considering the radical step, according to the submission by the Clean Energy Council (CEC).
Meaning, to damn them with faint praise: they’re the only jurisdiction in the world willing to face up to the impossible demands of the “Net Zero” cult.
Climate cultists, detached from reality as they are, simply assume that a “transition” will, well… just happen. They have no idea of the scale or cost of the engineering challenge. Indeed, they don’t want to know, because admitting that they’ll have to cover half of the state of Victoria in wind turbines, solar panels, and battery farms, at a cost of trillions of dollars is the kind of prick of consciousness that threatens to burst the balloon of their inflated worldview.
They also don’t want to cop to simple facts, such as that, when everyone plugs their EVs in at the same time at night, it’ll overload the whole system. If the government want to avoid the embarrassing spectacle of transformers in every street bursting into flame, they’re going to have to do something to reduce the overload.
In true leftist fashion, the Palaszczuk government is going straight for the stick — and the Climate Cultists aren’t happy.
“We are concerned the proposed changes to EVSE [electric vehicle supply equipment] installation may deter consumers from investing in EVs,” the CEC said.
Heaven forbid that people understand how shite their luxury smugmobiles really are.
Chris Lehmann, the national advocacy manager at Master Electricians Australia, said Energy Queensland was “conservative” and understandably worried about grid stability, as the growth in EVs drives peak power demand […]
He argued for a greater availability and use of “time of use tariffs”, which charge energy users more for power during peak periods, while granting a discount when the grid is quieter. The perceived benefit of a price-driven approach is that it leaves it up to EV owners to decide how they choose to save or use power, rather than through a top-down approach.
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Assuming that they can even afford an EV that costs at least as much as a BMW, exactly when does he think the average driver is going to be able to charge their car? At night, when they get home from work. Unlike the elitists of the Climate Cult, most folk don’t have the luxury of charging their smugmobile while they sit at their laptop working from home.
But, this is what happens when you get policy made by and for a laptop class who know bugger-all about how most of us live in the real world.