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Managing time shiftable devices (2024)
devices Heat pumps, induction cooking, electric vehicles (EVs) - our energy consumption is rapidly becoming more and more electric. And with good reason: electrification (switching to devices that use electrical energy) is an effective way of reducing carbon emissions when the used energy is produced in a renewable way, so it is one of many ways by which we can try to limit global warming and climate change.
Here are some examples of what the daily energy profile of a household with solar panels without electric vehicle look like (data from the European CoSSMic project, graph generated using Mermaid): Read leading psychologist Daniel Kahneman's excellent book Thinking, Fast and Slow about the flaws in assuming that humans are strictly rational actors (so called "econs"). The basic idea is that we pick a random time shiftable device to optimize, while keeping the others fixed, and repeat this procedure until we are stuck in a local optimum, and thus find no more improvements.
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