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My reference to "energy demand and control" was associated with "turning off" your loads not switching to battery power. Conservation is the cheapest and easiest way to reduce your electric bill.Well, SunEagle in
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and http://www.mid.org/yourhome/programs/step.html is an example that gives consumers a whole $20/year
discount. Was hoping for a few more examples.Comment
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Quit your whinning Ian. Those rules were made by the original owner of the site Jason who never enforced any rules. Strictly done for profit like the new owners. What you want is PC which is a form of censoring and silencing truth. If you are a moron, you should be labeled a moron for all to see. Free Speech is not Absolute like many thing, and this Forum can censor or allow anything they want at the Owners discretion. You or I may not like it, but that is the fact. If you don't like, don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
It is called Marketing where all PR is good PR.MSEE, PEComment
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Most of my experience has been in the industrial field where Demand Penalties from the POCO can get very expensive. I designed numerous systems that would "shed" loads to keep the demand from exceeding a specific kW limit during a 15 minute time period. When you are talking about $10/kw and you are using 1000 kw during a 15 min period that comes to $10,000 / month or $120,000/yr penalty just because you went over the limit for 1 minute.
While those systems were big and somewhat expensive you can now find relatively inexpensive systems that works for home or small business. Although the payback is longer since home and small businesses do not get charged or penalized for exceeding a specific Demand usage.Comment
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I do not remember what it was called but there was someone on this Forum that was experimenting with a hardware/software package that worked from his I phone. Not only would it identify your household loads and track them there were also devices that could be used to turn off certain loads by program or remotely from the phone.
Radio Shack use to have something like this back in the 80's when people were looking for ways to reduce their electrical usage. That equipment would send a single over the house power lines to a device (like a lamp) that was plugged in to it and turn it on or off by command.Comment
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Residential load controllers are not uncommon here in Arizona as APS has had optional demand rate tariffs for decades. If you have a lot of high power electric appliances, they can pay for themselves fairly quickly I'm told. I would have considered one except I had gas water heater, gas heat and later, a gas dryer. Also no pool with its pump. Load controllers elsewhere are often used for commercial buildings such as this example where you save big by keeping demand below a set-point.Comment
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Utilizes had that ability too back in the 80's. They could turn off your air conditioner 15 minutes of every hour. In Oklahoma they called it the Good Cents Program. They still can if you are dumb enough to go along with it. Today it is called a Smart Meter that can turn off anything the POCO wants when they want if you allow it to happen.MSEE, PEComment
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