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I would much rather than a public utility look after that for me, so that I don't have to carefully time my freezer-cleaning. If it's worth buying batteries th

I would much rather than a public utility look after that for me, so that I don't have to carefully time my freezer-cleaning. If it's worth buying batteries then let them do that in the most cost-efficient manner, and let me not have to micromanage that part of my life.

vbezhenar 5y ago
There are some massive electricity consumers like air conditioners, air heating, water heating, refrigerators. Those have some freedom when they're working in a continuous mode. Basically you can heat air when it's cheap and stop heating when it's expensive as long as temperature is good enough. You don't have to micromanage it yourself, with proper software and protocols it could be done automatically.
- bluGill 5y ago
  My parents installed that in 1988. The technology has existed for years. The power company charged half price for electric and gave them a second water heater so that they could heat the water at night (electric company controlled), and when power demand was high the air conditioner ran for 15 minutes, off for 10. (this mostly meant we kept the AC on all day, it wouldn't cool the house off when we got home but would keep it cool all day and cost less than setback thermostats). Refrigerators were not on the plan, but they don't draw near as much power.