There was a nice spike in Mastodon users today.
Some people believe it was because Nick Fuentes returned to Twitter.
Others believe it was because of @ivory and @[email protected] being released.
Either way, hello to new folks!
What if people would be rewarded for charging their cars when it is good for the grid & when carbon emissions are lowest?
Our new @RegulatoryAssistanceProject paper shows that smart charging of electric vehicles is taking off.
➡️139 tariffs & services for smart EV charging available in Europe today
➡️6 strategies to establish smart charging as default
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/1/88
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Smart charging of electric vehicles (EVs) is an essential approach to reduce the costs and maximise the benefits of increasing numbers of EVs being connected to the power grid. This article analyses 139 tariffs and services for smart EV charging available in Europe. It finds that while the market for smart EV charging services is growing, there is a lack of consumer information on the savings and broader environmental benefits it offers, such as integration of renewables. Offers are also unevenly distributed across the continent, resulting in unequal access to smart EV charging. The article outlines six strategies to establish framework conditions in energy markets that would address these gaps and establish smart charging as a standard means of charging, to ensure the beneficial integration of EVs into power grids.
I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.
Here we go again, already higher than the last peak,
Total numbers of new daily cases across the UK - 316,3075
People currently predicted to have symptomatic Covid-19 in the UK
From ZOE Health Study reports
3,163,075
Estimated on 23 December based on data from 21 December
Climate change is real. Absolutely.
But the possible connection of climate change to more extreme cold air outbreaks is very tenuous, at best. And there’s a lot of evidence to contradict it.
Listen to the science, not the media coverage.