[RFI] Smart meters

[Jim Brown]

On 1/15/2012 10:56 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> It's all for the sake of "conservation" the authorities tell us, but it's more like a cash grab.

Hardly. This thinking ignores the issues of real world power loading. 
Power generation and distribution must be built based on worst case peak 
demands, and peak demands are during workday daylight hours, and 
especially during the summer.  If some large discretionary loading 
(running an air conditioner or a clothes dryer,  running a pump to water 
crops or a garden, cooking a meal on an electric stove or in an electric 
oven) can be shifted from those peak hours to off-peak hours, the power 
system doesn't need to build as much capacity.

73, Jim K9YC