Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
Battery backed seems odd. I just got a regular induction stove and it’s great. No idea why someone would choose to use gas. Oh well, their lungs are not my problem.
The article says they are 120v induction stoves so they don’t have to do updates to the electrical. The battery also allows them to work if the power goes out. For how long? Idk.
Outside of natural disasters, how often is the power out longer than 20 minutes? My last power outage was due to a major car wreck and it wasn’t out much longer than an hour.
Depends on where you live. California in summer, and most places where you have trees+snow will get you outages. The rise of data centers using power scoped for residential areas is also likely to have impacts.
I would rather a house battery instead of a stove battery. At least for the house you could benefit from cheap night time tariffs. Power during power cuts is a nice bonus.
Battery backed seems odd. I just got a regular induction stove and it’s great. No idea why someone would choose to use gas. Oh well, their lungs are not my problem.
Very probable that the apartment doesn’t have enough amperage to support typical electric induction stoves.
Oh yeah, weak US grid.
That said my house is 62A and doesn’t have any problems, even with a heat pump. I had my gas connection removed.
The article says they are 120v induction stoves so they don’t have to do updates to the electrical. The battery also allows them to work if the power goes out. For how long? Idk.
Outside of natural disasters, how often is the power out longer than 20 minutes? My last power outage was due to a major car wreck and it wasn’t out much longer than an hour.
Depends on where you live. California in summer, and most places where you have trees+snow will get you outages. The rise of data centers using power scoped for residential areas is also likely to have impacts.
I would rather a house battery instead of a stove battery. At least for the house you could benefit from cheap night time tariffs. Power during power cuts is a nice bonus.
Pony up the scratch.
… What?
It can also keep the fridge running in an outage so there is that as well.
The battery means you can run a 4-burner stove on 120v, which avoids the need to rewire apartment buildings