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I wonder if the power companies want a smart grid. Don't they charge by the watt?
by lasermike026 11y ago
I wonder if the power companies want a smart grid. Don't they charge by the watt?
- TwiztidK 11y agoYes, now they will charge by the watt and time of day to reduce peak load. Although, I actually think the main idea is that it will make them aware of outages in real-time so they can recover faster, which one of the factors used to judge publicly traded utilities (also know as CAIDI, customer average interruption duration index).
- sp332 11y agoThey want electricity usage to be even, so they don't have to build out capacity for peak usage which is wasted most of the time. So a smart grid would be good for them.