battery
- Part 3 · 9 min read
Your Battery Is a Peaker Plant — If You Operate It Like One
A home battery on wholesale pricing earns its keep the way a peaker plant does: by dispatching at the right moment, against an objective with a sense of order.
- Part 3 · 7 min read
Every Electron Has a Cost Price
Three exported kilowatt-hours, three cost prices: straight off the roof, through the battery, or bought, stored and sold back.
- Part 4 · 7 min read
The 4.7-Cent Toll: Measuring What My Battery Charges Me
One deliberate charge-and-discharge test and a wear costing put a price on every kilowatt-hour my battery hands back.
- Part 5 · 7 min read
Passive Income, Operated Income: The Capture-Fraction Question
A simple free-window plan against an automated wholesale plan: the answer turns on how much of the theoretical value the household actually banks.
- Part 7 · 7 min read
Free Hours, a Full Battery, and the Number 48
A 48 kWh battery is the most free energy a house can store, not the most it can use; what a free window is worth turns on the plan's cap, how the cap is measured, the battery's spare room and the house's own use.