Fuel your EV in Texas for FREE !!!

[BigBarney]

TXU energy has a plan for ev's to charge for free...

You can charge your EV from 7pm to 1pm the next day for free...

https://www.txu.com/electricity-plans/free-ev-miles

"Any charging you do at home during the free period from 7 p.m. to 1 p.m. the next day will be credited back to you on your next month’s bill."

They have excess energy during this time... They even have to pay

to get rid of the excess... Negative pricing ...

https://www.txu.com/-/media/Project/VistraApps/DT ... m-list.pdf

See if your vehicle is included !!!!

BigBarney

[ColdHouse]

It seems like the utility company could do something smarter or more better for them than give it away.

[waytomany?s]

It seems like the utility company could do something smarter or more better for them than give it away.

What would you call smarter advertising than giving away a product that everyone needs?

[ColdHouse]

I think if they want to give away electricity during those hours it should be to everyone that uses electricity.

[waytomany?s]

I think if they want to give away electricity during those hours it should be to everyone that uses electricity.

I don't disagree.

[BigBarney]

It's probably cheaper to give it away than pay someone to take it...

At negative prices...You need the transport grid to take it to be paid...

They would have to change their tariff to give it away...

Most households couldn't take much power like cars can...

BigBarney

[ColdHouse]

Most households couldn't take much power like cars can...

BigBarney

Wow! Think about what you just said.

[BigBarney]

How many households have heating appliances that can take 240a at 240v ?

Electric storage heaters can... 57.6 Kw steady for 8+ hours...

Cars can take 11.5 Kw steady for hours on end...I have 3 of them...

BigBarney

[ColdHouse]

How many households have heating appliances that can take 240a at 240v ?

Electric storage heaters can... 57.6 Kw steady for 8+ hours...

Cars can take 11.5 Kw steady for hours on end...I have 3 of them...

BigBarney

Yes. They are energy hogs. With the power to charge one car some people could have enough electricity in their home for a week.

Please guys, this one is for Barney, Why doesn't the utility company just throttle down their production so they don't have excess?

[Sunny Boy]

How many households have heating appliances that can take 240a at 240v ?

Electric storage heaters can... 57.6 Kw steady for 8+ hours...

Cars can take 11.5 Kw steady for hours on end...I have 3 of them...

BigBarney

Kids and wife having all the lights on, TVs plus computers on, charging phones, and then an electric dryer running while cooking and baking with an electric stove, teenage daughters taking long showers while the wife is "multi-tasking" running the dish washer and doing laundry maxing out the dual element electric hot water heater, and then add on some electric base boards plus the electric plenum in the furnace kicks on. Your 240 amps is not enough. I know, because that is why I had to upgrade from the 200 amp service that most homes have to 400 amp service. Welcome to reality.

Paul

[anthony7812]

I'm kinda at a loss why the generation is pushing so much to have that much extra ? Regardless if where it's used, how does a grid have surplus power? It's not really how it works. Capacity is how most grids work.... I'm callin some good Ole B.S on this post.

[anthony7812]

Ahhhh found it.... credits. Government is almost guaranteed to be in this con scheme. Wonder why inflation is so high. Just another handout

[Sunny Boy]

Is this the same Texas that was having brownouts like about a year ago because of too much demand ?

Paul

[BigBarney]

It has to do with the duck curve.... Utilities have to have the power to meet the high peaks..

They can't easily curtail production... So they produce at a set level...And supplement with peakers...

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting- ... lar-energy

Places that have excess energy at certain times... Need batteries to store it to be used at the peaks...

They have so much power in the middle of the day they need to curtail renewables...

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56880

Fossil power plants can't turn off and on like batteries in milliseconds..

BigBarney

[Richard S.]

Fossil power plants can't turn off and on like batteries in milliseconds..

They don't turn on and off in milliseconds because a cloud floated overhead either. The excess production from conventional plants is exacerbated by intermittent power production from renewables.