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Originally Posted by gttx

I am no physicist, but I am an engineer, so I stay reasonably up to date on stuff like this. It was my understanding that plug-in hybrids (or pure electric cars) would take advantage of the energy being produced and wasted during off-peak hours. That is, it is less expensive for power plants to operate at peak demand full-time (and just not use the excess power) than to scale back operations during the day to fall in line with demand. This leaves us with an oversupply of energy at night.

I know that there would need to be additional capacity added to the system, but if I remember correctly, it was not that much. Perhaps some actual data will be necessary to properly frame the discussion....although at the moment I don't have it available.

Ahhh, yes. The elusive data. Rhetoric's eternal enemy.