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Energy Arbitrage Potential of a 7 kWh Battery for an average German Household

Due to the release of a certain battery by Tesla, there has been a lot of discussions about the potential for profit using the battery. Since German electricity prices are extremely high, many think that Germans would be a perfect target market. This is largely true, but unfortunately Germans are pretty frugal with electricity. Average energy consumption is around 3000-4000 kWh / householdĀ / year, which works out to 8-11 kWh/day.

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Version 3.7

Changes: Bugfixes in the household plans Major change in how the households are modelled by removing the devices from the households completely. Now instead households are modelled with affordances and the program will figure out the proper combination of devices needed. This fixed among other things an old bug that only showed up by mixing device actions and device categories in a household definition. Database cleanup Some small UI improvements

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