Right now, because demand plunges at night, wind generated at night is lower value or sometimes even dumped.
Cars batteries are a good match with wind power because they mostly charge at night, when people are sleeping, and wind tends to peak at night.
The rising and setting of the sun controls many of our daily rituals, from when we eat breakfast in the morning to when we wind down at night.
Kempton first got the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) idea in 1996, while wrestling with a fundamental problem with renewable energy: Solar power peaks at noon, and wind power peaks at night, but demand for electricity peaks between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Wind blows strongest at night, when electricity demand is low.
The researchers modeled their study on the electric grid in Illinois, which depends on a large number of coal and gas plants, and where the wind blows strongest at night, when demand is lowest.
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For example, in many places, winds are stronger at night, which means local wind farms produce most of their power when demand is lowest.
The wind in California tends to blow the strongest at night and in the winter while the sun obviously is at its strongest during the day and in the summer months.
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Just as suddenly the air deadened, and at one point during the night the wind meter read zero.
Argonne researchers are working on one possible solution to this problem: batteries that can store wind power for use when the wind stops blowing as well as store solar energy for use at night.
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The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.
With the wind at their backs, even Pennsylvania may have seemed realistic with a three-point deficit Sunday night.
Concerns about the impact of wind projects on Scotland's landscape were aired at Holyrood by MSPs in a debate on Wednesday night.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
The steel lattice roof collapsed about 04:30 GMT after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
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