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Home » New research points to ‘smarter’ electric water heaters​

New research points to ‘smarter’ electric water heaters​

February 26, 2016
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A new report from an electricity consulting firm suggests that future electric water heaters may increasingly become “grid interactive,” communicating with local utilities or other coordinating entities, and thereby providing services to the larger grid by modulating their energy use, or heating water at different times of the day.

“Electric water heaters are essentially pre-installed thermal batteries that are sitting idle in more than 50 million homes across the U.S.,” says the report from the Brattle Group, which was composed for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Peak Load Management Alliance.

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Source: The Washington Post

 

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