Or we can act like a first world country and just friggen produce ample electricity and maintain the path to get them to the customers.
OT: Electricity demand
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Sure, that's obviously an option.
My comment you quoted was in response to a right leaning poster who suggested people stop placing so much demand on the overall grids during times that are really hot or really cold.
So I responded with that suggestion in mind.
What about: 1) People that say we're not going to make a significant dent in inflation until we get energy prices down ?
2) People that say we're not going to get energy prices down with wind and solar ?
Except nobody suggested that. In fact it was explicitly noted that the reason we don't have interruptible load is because consumers hate it. Which is why it is and almost certainly will be available as low hanging fruit when we get to the point that we need to engage in load shedding to avoid widespread blackouts.
This sounds strangely like the Dekalb, MS
My bad for misunderstanding what the comment below means.
I read this as a right leaning poster suggesting a little inconvenience to people would significantly reduce stress and overload of grids.
Anyway, anyone know of any good deals on used Teslas? I’m getting impatient waiting for my turn to purchase the cybertruck. But I’m also gonna get an f350 to be prepared.
The all or nothing approach to interruptable power is pretty inconvenient. We have the tech to just interrupt the high demand devices (AC, fridge, dryer), while leaving peeps their lights and TV and such. Do that, and you can bring peak demand a lot closer to actual overall usage, lowering costs and needed supply.
That's great. Until the utility spoils all the food in my fridge. And you know they will.
My next door neighbor who lost his home in last Marchs tornado is building a house/ barndeminium/ RV port home totally not connected to the power grid. Total solar with a generator backup. I’ve been helping him do a lot of the install. So far he has been able to run for two plus days without sunlight before the generator kicks in to charge the batteries. I don’t know his total cost but the big stuff that I’ve signed for and seen recipes for is around $100,000. He’s 60 years old, he will never live long enough to recoup his cost in power bill savings. I don’t understand it but it’s not my money.
As of now, we don't live in a dystopian enough place where the utility with a government granted monopoly can come in and put those devices into use. Utilities offer them, or at least have offered them (I think our utility tried to offer a program that just interrupted the AC for up to two hours and there was so little uptake they discontinued the program) but I'm not aware of them taking off anywhere. I think ours offered like a $10 per month credit to participate? Which I think is pretty reasonable if you're talking about only being impacted one a month at most. Can't remember what the restrictions were but I know they would have been allowed to do it enough that it was a no brainer to turn down for us.
I think time of use rates could probably help a lot. They've been politically hard to implement in the US but I think with more smart meters and people having the ability to get notifications on their phone when pricing changes and/or when they have a high load during high priced times, it should be easier. Still somewhat a challenge though that generally TOU rates or dynamic pricing are good for reducing growth in utility bills rather than offering significant savings for a new inconvenience.
I can't speak for politicians, but if you ask the average conservative Mississippian about global warming/climate change most folks will say something like "Oh that's all a load of BS".
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