Grid Chat: When Your Battery Negotiates With the Power Market
Battery. At 5 p.m., the grid wants help. The evening peak is approaching, the aggregator needs 3 kW of flexibility between 17:00 and 19:00, and one household in the portfolio looks promising. In the old demand-response world, this might become a price alert, an app notification, or a silent automated command. The household either complies, ignores it, or discovers later that the “smart” system has made a decision that feels less smart when dinner, laundry, or comfort is involved. ...