{"id":582355,"date":"2023-06-06T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=582355"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:13:21","slug":"using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-renewable-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries-and-save-us-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-renewable-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries-and-save-us-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Using electric water heaters to store renewable energy could do the work of 2 million home batteries &#8211; and save us billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging.<\/p>\n<p>But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, have we overlooked a key enabling technology, the humble electric water heater?<\/p>\n<p>About half of Australian households use electric water heaters, while the rest use gas. So what&#8217;s so great about electric water heaters?<\/p>\n<p>Electric water heaters offer a cheap way to store large amounts of energy, in the form of hot water. A heater with a 300-litre tank can store about as much energy as a second-generation Tesla Powerwall &#8211; at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, have we overlooked a key enabling technology, the humble electric water heater? About half of Australian households use electric water heaters, while the rest use gas. So what&#8217;s so great about electric water heaters? Electric water heaters offer a cheap way to store large amounts of energy, in the form of hot water. A heater with a 300-litre tank can store about as much energy as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}