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Power Companies Could Remotely Switch Off Electric Vehicle Chargers To Reduce Grid Stress
Epoch Times ^ | 07/30/2023 | Daniel Yeng

Posted on 07/30/2023 8:56:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Energy providers could have the option to switch off home EV charging stations remotely to reduce pressure on Queensland’s electricity grid.

The proposal is part of the Australian state’s Queensland Electricity Connection Manual (QECM), which provides a framework for the grid’s operation.

Section 8 of the QECM proposes that EV charging equipment may be limited or switched off by operators Ergon Energy and Energex (distributed network service providers or DNSPs) if it has an output of more than 20 amps—a standard domestic single-phase EV charger uses 32 amps.

The use of such “demand management” schemes is largely unique to Queensland and is also used on residential pool cleaning machines, hot water systems, and air conditioning units under the Peaksmart program.

Peaksmart gives households a cash rebate; in return, the operator can turn off air conditioners remotely during peak operating times (summer) to reduce pressure on the energy grid.

The large-scale roll-out of such programs has been earmarked as a potential catalyst to close down coal-fired power stations faster—amid the net zero push—and to, instead, adopt more intermittent renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and battery.

Confidence Towards Net Zero’s Viability is Low: MP

Federal Nationals MP Keith Pitt, himself an electrical engineer, says a proposal to use demand management on EV charging reveals that operators have little confidence the grid can handle the uptake of electric cars expected in the push towards net zero.

“EV take-up could increase peak demand by as much as 60 percent right across the National Electricity Market,” Mr. Pitt told The Epoch Times.

“That would mean you need a 60 percent increase in generating electricity capacity, transmission, and distribution. So that’s every substation, every cable, every supply point, every house—it will cost an absolute fortune.”

The federal Labor government has set a lofty goal of having 3.8 million EVs on the road by 2030—there are currently 83,000 in use.

Further, the government is also pushing to expand the charging network, aiming for 100,000 for businesses, 3.8 million chargers in households, and 1,800 publicly available fast chargers.

The initiative comes as part of a wider push towards net zero by 2050 and to reduce emissions by 43 percent by 2030. Further, the Labor government hopes to have 82 percent of the National Electricity Market powered by renewables.

Advocacy Groups Push Back Against Proposal

Advocacy groups have argued against a demand management system saying it will dampen enthusiasm for EVs.

“We know from surveys that average consumers aren’t particularly keen on mandated orchestration of their appliances,” says the Electric Vehicle Council in its submission on the QECM (pdf).

“The Peaksmart program enlists between 10,000 and 15,000 air conditioning units for orchestration each year … out of a total of about 300,000 that get installed. About 95 percent of consumers prefer retaining control of their air conditioning, overtaking the financial incentives on offer.”

Meanwhile, Melissa McAuliffe, acting director of energy services at Energy Consumers Australia, says it would erode consumer trust that the “energy system is working for them.”

“Our 2023 Energy Consumer Sentiment Survey finds that only 35 percent of households are confident that the energy industry and regulators are working in their long-term interests now,” she wrote in a submission (pdf).

Further, such measures are unlikely to be completely effective for consumers or the system, as consumers may look to workarounds that circumvent giving DNSPs control. For example, through disincentivising the use of EV chargers, consumers may just use regular power points.”


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; chargers; chargingstations; electricity; ev; evs; globalwarminghoax; grid; power; queensland
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To: SeekAndFind

Another day, another reason to stay far faaaar away from EVs.


21 posted on 07/31/2023 3:55:51 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Soul of the South

Cept when Public Transport does not accept cash, and your social credit score is too low to gain a ride


22 posted on 07/31/2023 3:56:34 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: minnesota_bound

Imagine how that played out in california’s wildfires, when the electrical grid was shut off to reduce new fires; the enlightened californians got to watch their homes AND electric cars burn (because they couldn’t charge them).

I would never go further than a hybrid, and even that would be years away.


23 posted on 07/31/2023 4:01:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SeekAndFind

Its amazing how much of this you can figure out just through speculation.
They have to have complete control of everyone’s lives if their criminal new world order is to succeed.


24 posted on 07/31/2023 4:01:50 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. That is the plan.


25 posted on 07/31/2023 4:16:48 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

Been saying that all along this would be a “feature” of EVs.


26 posted on 07/31/2023 4:17:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

that’s why gov’t wants us all electric...they can totally control it.


27 posted on 07/31/2023 4:33:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

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28 posted on 07/31/2023 5:27:12 AM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: Gaffer

I will not put anything on a network that controls my egress into and out of my home or controls the heating/cooling. They are going to have to turn the grid off to shut me down and they did last Christmas when it was bitter cold, random blackouts. Which in the long run caused struggling heat pumps to work even harder to try and catch up on the heat loss.


30 posted on 07/31/2023 9:42:01 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: SeekAndFind

Several EV idiots on FR have said the grid has excess capacity for EVs.


31 posted on 07/31/2023 10:08:50 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Big Brother Go to Hell

High - Low coalition.

Has been used by many declining elites in the past to maintain power, eg Roman Empire.

They usually bring in foreigners to add numbers to the low - which they do here.


32 posted on 07/31/2023 10:17:54 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Steven Tyler

“Cept when Public Transport does not accept cash, and your social credit score is too low to gain a ride”

Then your life will end. By then a walk home through any urban or suburban community will be committing suicide. The government will not have to euthanize those with social credit. The lawless members of protected groups will eliminated those jettisoned from the brave new world. Politicians and bureaucrats will have clean hands.


33 posted on 07/31/2023 1:21:53 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “powers that be” do not want you driving EVs no more than they want you driving ICE automobiles.

They do not want you driving at all.

The left wants to switch everything to electric, from automobiles to ranges. But they have no plan as to how all that needed electricity is going to be created. Batteries do not create electricity no more than the receptacles in your home do. It has to come from nuclear, coal, gas or hydro in order to power the world in sufficient amounts to maintain a successful economic society. Wind and solar with its current technology will not cut it no matter what the climate cultists want to pretend (or make you believe).

Their goal is for YOU not to travel at all other than walking or biking in their “15 minute” cities. You will go no where and you WILL be happy. If you aren’t, they have a vaccine for that!


34 posted on 07/31/2023 1:33:44 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: CFW

Glad to see so many people on FR “get it.” I try to discuss the climate scam’s dangers with my otherwise good and well meaning friends and relatives here in the reddest red state of Oklahoma, but they DON’T “get it.” They let the media fool them into thinking the coldest winter from their youth was “normal back then.”

They think I’m just a “conspiracy kook,” even when the “conspiracy” comes true all around them, even when climate scam Democrat politicians come right out and BOAST how they’re going to outlaw single family homes, force us into the inner cities, make us go vegan, take away our cars, etc. Life in such an enviromarxist $#!+hole of a country would NOT be worth living!


35 posted on 08/01/2023 3:22:32 AM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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