{"id":3853,"date":"2025-08-08T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:56:05","slug":"time-to-update-electrical-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"Time to update Electrical Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open Loop: a load assumes there is infinite energy, no feedback for generation to know how much energy is needed.  eg mains power<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closed Loop: a load REQUESTS a known number of watts.  the source\/generation knows how much energy is needed.  eg USB, Power over Ethernet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NA Electrical grid runs on an Open Loop standard.  It is from a simpler time when houses only had 6 items that ran on mains power.  now we have 100 items including an electric car and solar panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody wants to spend money updating a electrical grid that works&#8230;mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Problems and Opportunities:<br>Current dumb grid can&#8217;t deal with large amounts of unpredictable power  (read solar)<br>Grid hardware was designed for power flowing from generation to load.  Rooftop solar breaks that model.  Expensive upgrades required to gear that is working correctly 90+% of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BiDirectional car charging is coming to mainstream, with the right hardware, you can run your house from your electric car battery.<br>Consumer solar prices are dropping and used gear is more available.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside the Home we can use standards like USB, PowerOverEthernet to power our increasing number of low voltage gadgets.  When will our outlets have USB-C from a central source?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside the Home the Community Grid needs a feedback mechanism to delay large loads until more generation is brought online, and to decrease generation when solar generation is high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Loop: a load assumes there is infinite energy, no feedback for generation to know how much energy is needed. eg mains power Closed Loop: a load REQUESTS a known&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}