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It's crazy to me that it isn't a thing. There's a bunch of stuff (laundry, dishes, RAID snapshots) that I can schedule to run any time, but there's zero incenti
by Marsymars 6y ago
It's crazy to me that it isn't a thing. There's a bunch of stuff (laundry, dishes, RAID snapshots) that I can schedule to run any time, but there's zero incentive not to run them all at peak times.
- danans 6y agoBut it is a thing [1]. Some consumers have just chosen not to opt in, often paying more overall for electricity as a result. That's why the public utilities commission has started mandating them by default, with an opt out policy instead. People don't voluntarily change their electricity rate plan. When they do, usually it's when they're existing rate plan expires, and in CA there's been a lot of marketing at that time to get them to switch to time of use rates, usually by trying to explain to them how much they will save by shifting their usage. But most people don't want to think about when they use electricity - they want to use it when they want to use it. That's why there is now a California government mandate for variable rate plans. Going forward, we need truly dynamic rate plans and consumer appliances that support automatic load shifting (i.e an electric clothes dryer that let's you set a deadline for clothes drying and then optimizes when it runs), and along with that, people broadly becoming better educated about how electricity pricing works. 1. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-utilities-prep-nations-biggest-time-of-use-rate-roll-out/543402/ https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-utilities-prep-n...
- Marsymars 6y agoYeah, "not universally a thing" is what I should have said. I've never had the option to opt in to time-of-use metering anywhere I've lived. :(