Doctor of Technical Sciences and expert of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future Stanislav Ignatiev proposed introducing a special tariff for selling electricity from Ecoflow and Bluetti storage devices back to the grid.
Doctor of Technical Sciences and expert of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future Stanislav Ignatiev proposed introducing a special tariff for selling electricity from Ecoflow and Bluetti storage devices back to the grid.
«Those who have electricity storage devices, have a connection for power supply and a corresponding meter should receive a new tariff for the supply of electricity (which they stored during off-peak hours or generated from a solar power plant) at a special tariff at the same or comparable rate to the „green“ tariff,» he suggested on his Facebook page.
«Don’t let my colleagues from EcoFlow and Bluetti be offended, but we must have a maximum price for 1 kWh of electricity that will be stored in these electric energy storage devices,» said the same expert, speaking on the Kyiv 24 channel.
In his opinion, this would help smooth out consumption peaks when the capacity of thermal power plants in the overall system is insufficient.
«Today, the output from our thermal power plants is 673 MW (sometimes up to 1 GWh) hours — this is critically low. The main function of thermal power plants is to balance the energy system. In fact, so that in the morning or evening you can comfortably take a shower, heat an electric kettle for coffee or tea, use the elevator, get to work in a subway car, tram or trolleybus,» the expert writes.
He emphasizes that as of now, Ukrainians have storage devices at home «up to 1.6 GWh with a capacity of 3-4 hours. And this is almost the same as the Khmelnytskyi NPP.»
«It will be a difficult challenge for IT to manage this, but everything is realistic to do,» says Stanislav Ignatiev.
