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Comment by josephg

Unfortunately this isn’t possible. If we spent billions upgrading electricity infrastructure, sure. But it’s much cheaper overall to make smart use of solar panels and batteries that are already being installed in the grid. And that requires a smart grid, full of networked equipment.

For example, during peak sunlight times, many neighbourhoods now generate more solar than they use. Without a sink for that power, voltages would go haywire on power lines and damage equipment. So the grid uses control boxes to manage how much power each house is allowed to send back to the grid. And all that needs compute, live metering and so on.

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