Sam D'Amico: 8-10 kWh per home drastically cuts grid blackout risks
Sam D'Amico · Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Oct 4, 2024 · at 36:58
Impulse Labs founder Sam D'Amico explains how residential battery storage can buffer peak afternoon air conditioning loads during heatwaves.
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“If you distributed like over 10 kilowatt hours per home in the U S like. You can ride out pretty major like outages. And the big story with like a heat wave is heat waves are really bad for the grid because essentially everyone's turning their AC on full blast all the time, but like the sun does set. Right. And then they won't need to keep their AC on as high. So as long as you can last that four hours or something like that in the middle of the day, which is 8:10 kilowatt hours of batteries is more than enough to spread that out. Like way later in the day, you can actually greatly reduce the threat to the grid, like AKA some mass blackout or rolling blackout type situation.”
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