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Offline rangerrebew

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Energy Lockdowns Have Arrived: Wash Post touts ‘millions of Americans giving up control of their home thermostats’ – Laud ‘utility companies remotely shutting off’ your AC during heat waves to ‘prop up grids’ – WaPo admits solar & wind ‘only make electricity when the wind is blowing & the sun is shining’

Wash Post: - September 24, 2024: Ada Garcia, a Houston homeowner, didn’t have to touch her thermostat to pitch in. Her utility company remotely shut off her air conditioner nine times that day as part of a power-saving strategy that is already propping up grids around the country as they deal with booming demand and a growing share of unpredictable wind and solar power. ...  Garcia, who was working in her home office, had no idea that Texas was teetering on the edge of an energy crisis that evening or that Octopus Energy, her power company, was waging a battle in her living room to save the grid. ...
Around the state of Texas, Octopus and other power companies raised thermostats, paused electric car chargers and tapped into home batteries in thousands more of their customers’ homes. They also paid stores, data centers and office towers to shut off lights and air conditioners and slow down their computers.

All told, Texas utilities made 2.6 gigawatts of electricity demand disappear in the critical moments when the grid was in crisis — the equivalent of a large nuclear power plant. That’s why programs like this one are called “virtual power plants.” ...

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America needs more modern and efficient means of generating, transmitting, and consuming electricity - smarter grid technology.

What's happening is energy rationing.  It's a dangerous precedent.  It discourages re-investment in energy infrastructure, and hinders economic growth.

If you are C. Montgomery Burns, which is more profitable with less risk - rationing or increasing capacity?  Rationing.  Rationing also has the added value of keeping electricity supply scarce, thus, increasing the natural price of electricity (and increasing profits).
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Want to get to my thermostat, you have to come through me (and my dog) first.
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60 watt electrical, fuses, knob-and-tube wiring.
No "smart" appliances here at all.
Will try to keep it that way for the time I've got left...