Flexible Load in California & Hosting Capacity
A nice recent article by Ryan Hledik and Ahmad Faruqui, economists with The Brattle Group highlight the value of #flexibleload in California and how it could have potentially avoided the recent blackouts there. The article describes aligning consumption to real time prices is required to encourage load to shift to lower cost periods alleviating stress on the grid and its generation fleet. Also how technologies such smart thermostats and increasingly managed #EV charging and #