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That already happens. PG&E charges differently at peak times in California, for example. People just pay for it anyway because they can’t plan their daily lives
by twblalock 4y ago
That already happens. PG&E charges differently at peak times in California, for example. People just pay for it anyway because they can’t plan their daily lives around the power company’s preferred times.
- Symbiote 4y agoCheaper electricity at night has been around for decades in some European countries. My parents would regularly set the dishwasher to run at ~5am, and sometimes the washing machine. In the 1990s this used a timer plug. Nowadays these appliances have built-in delay-start functions.
- wizofaus 4y agoI use delay-start to do the exact opposite - only run things in the middle of the day when the solar panels are generating the most power. Though it's less ideal for the washing machine as you need somewhere to hang the clothes overnight so you can dry them the next day (unless it's peak summer where there's enough daylight/warmth to dry clothes even if you don't hang them out until 4pm or so).
- tootie 4y agoSure they can and anyone who is aware of it does. We do it in NYC and I save things like dishwasher and laundry for off-peak times. But things like car charging are unique because there may be a 12-hour window in which you need to do 4 hours of charging and the timing is very flexible and has diminishing returns if you don't have a lot of miles to cover any time soon.