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There is small problem though - all of the people will need the last 10% at the same time. And because you need infrastructure that will work only 10 percent of the time, expect the price of kwh to be 10 times the current to compensate.

The less you need the grid - the more expensive is what you will pull from it because the infrastructure costs will be spread on fewer kwh.





I'm not sure if everybody will need the last 10% at the same time. Perhaps on a grid that's only a few counties large?

100 kWh of energy will last the average US house three days. And when you throw in people's EV batteries too...


100kWh would last me about the coldest (January) week with all mod cons and hot water and space heat via our heat pump:

https://www.earth.org.uk/energy-series-dataset.html#V-con


Yes. If the price per kW goes up too far, guess what? More batteries. Luckily they are about to get very cheap.

Sadly, it won't matter. Governments/electricity companies have already somewhat adapted:

1) a big part of your energy bill is "connection charge" or similar. Not related to usage but just to be connected at all.

2) they don't allow disconnection

3) most of what you pay in electricity bills is effectively a tax, not for the actual electricity, and isn't really per-kWh. This is masked by the government loading the grid companies up with debt in the past, getting the money and then "making them independent companies", then voting in a levy on tax.

Note I call this masked because the government can't let these companies succeed (it'd be a political disaster if they make real profits, and they can just raise the levy), and they can't let these companies fail (that would mean no more electricity grid for some regions). So it's a matter of time before the government is forced to buy these companies back and all netted out this will just have been a really expensive loan for the government (that past administrations got to spend, and present (it's already begun) and future administrations have to pay)

In some countries there's already talk of giving the grid company the right to charge a connection charge ... when there's no actual grid connection (in Australia), and there isn't even the theoretical option to deliver electricity to an address. Don't worry, they "have plans" to connect everyone (but some of those plans have been there for 80 years and still aren't implemented. But you'll have to pay for just being in the plan)

So the problem is that the government won't let you save money by lowering your usage from normal levels. That would screw up the government budget.

And all they have to do is make connection charge 90%+ of your bill, with some "free" included electricity and your solar installation no longer saves you money.


What country do you live in? That's not how it works here.



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