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Originally Posted by HELPNEEDED
Oh the ignorance in that post.
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I still don't see your calculations. All that is very nice, but if off-hours consumption + new consumption isn't greater than the current peak consumption, your original assertion still fails. The two figures you are looking for are: Current Off-Hours Peak Consumption, and Projected Additional Consumption after converting 5% of Alberta vehicles to Electric Drive. That graph was a nice touch, another one of those would be spiffy as well.
-edit- Since it's lunchtime, I did a rough calculation and it would be about 1410 megawatts of additional consumption, given 150 000 vehicles, 15 000 miles/year, divided by an average 20 mpg, then divided by 365 days of 8 hours consumption (only at night!), to give 38527 gallons/hour @ 36.6 kw/h per gallon. So approximately 10% of peak capacity, which, considering it'll be needed at off-peak, is not going to cause the armageddon you anticipate.