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Originally Posted by 1990C4S View Post
This is the Texas grid load over 6 months.

Lots of room to use their capacity more efficiently. Eventually the chargers will only use excess capacity.

Yup, there is so much excess capacity at night that there would have to be millions of electric cars before it becomes a problem. Besides that, by the time there are that many electric cars, the cars will communicate with the grid and provide power back to the grid in times of peak power need.
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