{"id":15139,"date":"2024-07-15T06:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/sceptics-say-evs-will-overwhelm-the-grid-in-fact-they-could-be-part-of-the-solution\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T06:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:38:43","slug":"sceptics-say-evs-will-overwhelm-the-grid-in-fact-they-could-be-part-of-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/sceptics-say-evs-will-overwhelm-the-grid-in-fact-they-could-be-part-of-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicles are \u2018batteries on wheels\u2019 that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power <\/p>\n<p>Electric cars make some people afraid of the dark. While the batteries produce much less carbon, they require much more electricity to run. This has prompted ominous warnings that Great Britain and other wealthy countries set on banning new petrol and diesel cars risk plunging their populations into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months British net zero-sceptical newspapers have warned that the shift to EVs would \u201crisk overwhelming the grid, and threaten catastrophic blackouts\u201d when intermittent sun and wind fail to provide the necessary power. Another article claimed: \u201cIt won\u2019t take an enemy power to put us all in the dark \u2013 just energy customers doing normal things on a normal winter\u2019s evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jul\/15\/electric-vehicles-bidirectional-charging-national-grid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/370277e57d91901721410b672daac50e8e3aa678\/0_103_4883_2931\/master\/4883.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f8b13db353666d4733bad1fc36a50954\" title=\"Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution\" \/>Electric vehicles are \u2018batteries on wheels\u2019 that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power<br \/>\nElectric cars make some people afraid of the dark. While the batteries produce much less carbon, they require much more electricity to run. This has prompted ominous warnings that Great Britain and other wealthy countries set on banning new petrol and diesel cars risk plunging their populations into darkness.<br \/>\nIn recent months British net zero-sceptical newspapers have warned that the shift to EVs would \u201crisk overwhelming the grid, and threaten catastrophic blackouts\u201d when intermittent sun and wind fail to provide the necessary power. Another article claimed: \u201cIt won\u2019t take an enemy power to put us all in the dark \u2013 just energy customers doing normal things on a normal winter\u2019s evening.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicles are \u2018batteries on wheels\u2019 that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power Electric cars make some people afraid of the dark. While the batteries produce much less carbon, they require much more electricity to run. This has prompted ominous warnings that Great &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/sceptics-say-evs-will-overwhelm-the-grid-in-fact-they-could-be-part-of-the-solution\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}