{"id":178629,"date":"2023-12-19T00:28:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries"},"modified":"2023-12-19T00:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:28:32","slug":"using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Using electric water heaters to store energy could do the work of 2 million home batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectric water heaters offer a cheap way to store large amounts of energy, in the form of hot water. A heater with a 300-litre tank can store about as much energy as a second-generation Tesla Powerwall \u2013 at a fraction of the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Australia\u2019s energy transition is well under way. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/iea-pvps.org\/snapshot-reports\/snapshot-2022\/\">3 million households have rooftop solar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/first-past-the-post-evs-race-to-front-in-sales-of-medium-sized-cars-20230420-p5d1yj.html\">sales of medium-sized electric cars<\/a> are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, have we overlooked a key enabling technology, the humble electric water heater?<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energynetworks.com.au\/resources\/fact-sheets\/reliable-and-clean-gas-for-australian-homes-2\/\">half of Australian households<\/a> use electric water heaters, while the rest use gas. So what\u2019s so great about electric water heaters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cElectric water heaters offer a cheap way to store large amounts of energy, in the form of hot water. A heater with a 300-litre tank can store about as much energy as a second-generation Tesla Powerwall \u2013 at a fraction of the cost.\u201d Australia\u2019s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}