Re: [smartpower-interest] [smartpowerdir] FYI OSTP requests input on SmartGrid

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

hector wrote:
> Wilhelm Wimmreuter wrote:
> ...
>
> Let the game begins after the price of energy is increased first -
> cost of building this.   Maybe I am a skeptic, but I find it a little
> hard to shallow that consumers will be paying any less than are are
> today, and that there would be a rates menu ala cart.
>

The rates that residential customers pay for electricity
seems very different all over the world.  I don't see how
appliance manufacturers could deal with this problem
on their own.

If my utility offered significant savings to use power
between midnight and 6 am, then I would be able to
select which appliances I want to use during that
predictable time period.   Appliances already have
buttons to delay-start.  I don't need a SmartGrid for that.

I don't think I want a complex electric bill, and
automated appliances bidding for kilo-watt-minutes,
and running whenever the 'price is right'.
I prefer the simple midnight - 6am solution for homes.


Andy