About the research
We used to mainly use electricity in the morning and evening. Now that more and more families have solar panels and electric cars, we see a deep peak in consumption at noon when the sun shines and in the evening when the electric cars are charged. Our energy grid is not adapted to this. So should we reconstruct the grid with thicker cables? That would require too big an investment. Ellen Beckstedde (Vlerick Business School - KU Leuven) is contributing to another solution...
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