[OZAPRS] OT Re: smart meters ?
Hamish Moffatt
hamish at cloud.net.au
Sat Dec 11 22:59:04 EST 2010
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 09:37:01AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Shaun wrote:
>
> > It is about reducing the peak demand by either price incentives to not
> > use electricity during peak times or to defer use into non peak times.
> > In this way the network does not need to be engineered to support a peak
> > load and can therefore be smaller in capacity to service a more steady
> > load. In this respect it is utilising the assets more effectively and
> > hence saves network build, which I suppose could be green.
>
> Given that households tend to cook in the morning and evening, and
> industry runs during the day, I can't see much happening unless a lot of
> people start working night-shift.
Households can shift their dishwashing and probably their clothes
washing till offpeak hours if they wish. I often run the washing machine
overnight.
Isn't it odd that one of the major criticisms of solar power is that it
only works during the day, considering that that's when most of the demand is?
Hamish
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