[RFI] Smart meters

[roncasa]

On 1/16/2012 4:29 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> 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.
>


does this apply to corporations also? what about their wasted parking 
lot lights after store closing, or shutting off their huge electric 
current sucking signs, etc etc.

This works both ways. We must work together, not just the private consumer.

72
Ron, wb1hga