“Yes, there is enough power,” said electric drive expert Blankaert. Although he will comment immediately. “There is not enough power if everyone starts loading the power grid at the same time in the future.” So a better question would be: “Is the power grid capable of handling large simultaneous power demands in the future?”
“High-voltage grid operator Elia has mapped this to 2035: there is no shortage of electricity, but the power grid cannot cope with a large supply of power at the same time. So there will not always be the same amount of power. of the day.”
Stijn makes it concrete: “Imagine you come home, you turn on all the lights, the oven goes on, you run the washing machine and you start charging it your car at 11 kW. If all of Belgium starts doing this at the same time, then we have a power problem.”
So we have to spread our spending. “During the day we see days with a lot of solar energy, and then we have a surplus of electricity. In the mornings and evenings we see a big increase in demand for electricity due to heat pumps and electric cars. So it will be very important to charge electric cars during the day or at night then there will be no problem.”
This is also why the capacity target was introduced. “The government wants to encourage us in this way to spread your consumption more and prevent peaks. And we are automatically reduced, because you pay more by not spreading your consumption, ” concluded Blanckaert.
2024-04-18 10:04:00
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