{"id":1990,"date":"2015-05-10T00:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2015-10-13T23:43:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:43:31","slug":"battery-killers-grid-interactive-water-heaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/05\/battery-killers-grid-interactive-water-heaters.html","title":{"rendered":"Battery Killers: Grid-Interactive Water Heaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/grid-interactive-water-heaters.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/grid-interactive-water-heaters.png\" alt=\"grid interactive water heaters\" width=\"320\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>Grid-interactive water heaters (GIWHs) add bidirectional control to electric resistance water heaters, allowing a utility or third-party aggregator to rapidly toggle them off and on. This functionality turns a fleet of water heaters into a flexible energy-storage medium, capable of increasing and decreasing the load on the grid on a second-by-second basis.<\/p>\n<p>GIWHs are currently the least expensive form of energy storage available. Utilities can use fleets of grid-enabled water heaters for load shifting, demand response, arbitrage, ancillary services, or to respond to unexpected grid-stabilization events. Traditional dissemination of new water heater technology has been a painstakingly slow process, but water heater rental programs may greatly accelerate this process.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esource.com\/ES-WP-18\/GIWHs\" target=\"_blank\">Battery Killers: How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices<\/a>, David Podorson.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2015\/05\/sustainability-off-grid-solar-power.html\">How sustainable is stored sunlight<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grid-interactive water heaters (GIWHs) add bidirectional control to electric resistance water heaters, allowing a utility or third-party aggregator to rapidly toggle them off and on. This functionality turns a fleet of water heaters into a flexible energy-storage medium, capable of increasing and decreasing the load on the grid on a second-by-second basis. GIWHs are currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,18,315,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}