Charging an electric car will earn you €10-€15 and you get to drive your car a nice distance too.
Battery storage could earn you more if you discharge at the right moment, but energy prices aren’t negative often enough to warrant the expenses on a battery pack. You could also trade on intra-day pricing differences (buy low, sell high) but I doubt this will be an interesting business case for the average consumer.
Of course large scale battery parks work the same way, but they will have contracts with the grid provider to balance capacity, a more lucrative market.
Large scale electrolysis has the same problem as home batteries: big investment, so you won’t recoup the investment unless you can run the electrolyser often enough. Another issue is that electrolysers can’t scale up or down very quickly, so you can’t respond to capacity issues and get lucrative deals in that market.
I think the main issue is predictability of price/power? If you could guarantee getting paid 10p unit for off-peak, and guarantee getting paid 40p to supply during peak, for say 5 years, I think a lot more of these projects would take off...but it's all still far too turbulent.
The thing is: batteries, when used for buying low and selling high only in a turbulent market, have a dampening effect on exactly that. So, if deployed en-masse, they kill their own business case. With the 'side effect' of a much more stable price market, which is exactly what we want I guess.
Battery storage could earn you more if you discharge at the right moment, but energy prices aren’t negative often enough to warrant the expenses on a battery pack. You could also trade on intra-day pricing differences (buy low, sell high) but I doubt this will be an interesting business case for the average consumer.
Of course large scale battery parks work the same way, but they will have contracts with the grid provider to balance capacity, a more lucrative market.
Large scale electrolysis has the same problem as home batteries: big investment, so you won’t recoup the investment unless you can run the electrolyser often enough. Another issue is that electrolysers can’t scale up or down very quickly, so you can’t respond to capacity issues and get lucrative deals in that market.