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I guess you could also use a small battery to help smooth things out.

>>nicobu+(OP)
The money efficiency isn't great - if you had control of the design of the dishwasher, simply having a hot block of concrete inside that you heated when there was spare energy would work out far cheaper.

Concrete costs far fewer $$$'s than batteries do, per kwh of heat stored, it also doesn't require inverters, balancing or safety systems, ad lasts millions of cycles rather than thousands.

>>london+x
How expensive would it be, transportation included, compared to an insulated water container of comparable heat capacity?

>>london+x
Or maybe store hot water and heat it up at the best time...?

>>goodpo+kc
The water is too hot to store safely.

You can still slowly heat it up to 70 or 80°C and just add some extra heat on use, but that will still leave a lot of immediate power to deal with.

>>nicobu+(OP)
I can't imagine a scenario where you've got a large enough solar system that you'd want to be running a dishwasher off it, and you don't already have some battery storage elsewhere in that system.

>>notato+0D1
Waves from Australia

However, since my array is currently 4.4kw at 3 in the afternoon, a 2.5kw burst isn't a problem.