Die USA sind eine Nation klimatisierter Häuser, und diese allgegenwärtige Kühlmaschinerie treibt ein übergroßes Stück der elektrischen Nachfrage des Landes vor, insbesondere bei Wärmewellen. Als die Versorgungsunternehmen nun ein weiterer Strombedarf nach AI-Computing befriedigen, hat die Legacy-Klimaanlagen ein neues Geschäftsunternehmen auf den Markt gebracht, um regelmäßige alte HLK-Geräte zu einem Teil der Lösung zu machen.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/carrier-air-conditioning-help-grid
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The U.S. is a nation of air-conditioned houses, and this ubiquitous cooling machinery drives an outsize chunk of the country’s electrical demand, especially during heat waves. Now, as utilities scramble to meet even more power demand for AI computing, legacy air-conditioning giant Carrier has launched a new business venture to make regular old HVAC equipment part of the solution.
„Carrier has realized that home batteries are a much higher-margin business than HVAC equipment“
That’s a better title.
Oh, and with the added benefit that if either fails you’ll replace both.
Interestingly, the (northern) EU has largely always been an ‚airco == bad‘ region. Now that gas heating is getting banned, we suddenly embrace airco as the ‚better‘ alternative.
I’m not sure why airco and batteries would help a lot, especially in winter, when there isn’t much sun to charge the battery.
In summer, sure.
Keep in mind that batteries have an efficiency of 80% at best, so they will drive up your total energy usage.
I just hope they’re not putting the batteries in the AC unit
I feel like an HVAC integration can be more cheaply done with a properly integrated thermal battery. Think hot water tank that is heated/ cooled at optimal parts of the day.