{"id":44758,"key":"Energy_stacking","title":"Energy stacking","latest":{"id":1206689,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T20:39:01Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{References needed}}\n\n[[File:Energy stacking in institutions.png|thumb]]\n\n''Note - \"Energy stacking\" isn't usually used with this meaning. Is there a better term?''\n\n'''Energy stacking''' refers to planning your spreading your use of energy (ie from heavy energy appliances (as dishwasher, washing machine, clothes dryer, ...) throughout the day, in a house fitted with [[off-grid]] power generation. Often energy stacking is essential as the energy storage system you have may have too small a peak output or overall energy capacity to to allow running several heavy energy appliances at a same time, or around a same time during that day (ie restrictions in peak output, or simply overall energy capacity; note for the latter a significant time may need to be kept in between for charging).\n\n== Benefits ==\n\nEnergy stacking allows a house to be fitted with a energy storage system with a relatively small capacity. If energy stacking is not practiced, a energy storage system with a much larger peak output and capacity is needed, increasing the cost and increasing your environmental impact (atleast if you wish to generate power completely off grid, so without a [[Net metering|hookup to the mains electricity grid]].\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Net metering|Using power from the mains electricity grid at favorable times]]\n* [[Time switch]]\n\n== Gallery ==\n\n<gallery>\nFile:Energy stacking in institutions.png|Example of energy stacking schedule\n</gallery>\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Off-grid systems can do more. Appropedia explains energy stacking and how it keeps power steady in rural areas.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Green living]]"}