Carbon Aware: top posts
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Shifting batch jobs to cleaner hours: what actually moves the needle
Our product shifts EV charging to the hours when the grid is cleaner, so naturally people on my team asked whether we do the same with our own batch jobs. We do now. Here is what I learned, including where the gains are smaller than the conference talks suggest. The basic idea Electricity is not equally clean every hour. When wind and solar are high, the grid mix has a lower carbon intensity (grams of CO2 per kWh).…