Ice Banks, Load Shifting & the Electric Dairy

Dairies are quietly becoming the most electrifiable sector in food and drink, and the reasons were installed decades ago. The ice bank makes refrigeration schedulable, so a dairy can buy its cold when electricity is cheap; mechanical vapour recompression turned evaporation from the sector's biggest gas load into an efficient electrical one; and the heat the plant needs is low-grade enough for industrial heat pumps to supply. This lesson covers the load-shifting arithmetic first, then the electrification ladder it opens.