Comment Re:No Cheap Power (Score 1) 172
We don't have peak demand from aircon in the UK (GB grid) either. Ours comes on (winter) evenings when, for example, meals are being cooked for kids home from school.
Do you have a link to your utility's site?
Yes, of course you shouldn't take my word on spec over your local guy's, but I'm stubbornly continuing to assert that your local load profile can't be completely flat and with rock-steady frequency even if not as tortured as elsewhere.
For reference here's my 'local' grid (GB) live balancing stats:
http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/b...
I am truly sympathetic to your wish to overcomplicating things and making them more complex and fragile: I just don't think this stuff will be 'over'-complexity for a huge chunk of the purchasers, it will be more like an essential and pay for itself in upfront balancing payments off the purchase cost in many cases.
Here are a few of my wacky ideas on the topic, one of which got me through the first round of a competition sponsored by National Grid and another of which has been discussed with an electricity supplier:
http://www.earth.org.uk/domest...
I will still try to turn some of these into niche (but simple) versions of consumer products. You only buy these ones if they meet a need for you and no one else is lumbered with the extra complexity...
Rgds
Damon